Although the Mozart year remains very much in play, this season amounts to a Beethoven festival.

He directed two Beethoven Festivals in 1920 and 1921.

A Beethoven festival has just ended, and the weeks to come include seminars in advanced music theory, the guitar and the keyboard.

He led a series of Beethoven festivals with the San Francisco Symphony during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

All things being equal, the Beethoven festival will be back next year, Ms. Bookman said.

The Beethoven Festival started on Sunday 10 August 1845.

Beethoven Festival: Revolution 2012, which ran September 8-16, 2012, more than doubled its size in just one year.

Part of the Friends of the Arts Beethoven Festival.

The Orchestra of St. Luke's performs at the Beethoven Festival on the final weekend.

A year ago the orchestra presented a Beethoven festival under the artistic direction of the venerable Robert Shaw, who died in January.