Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Sonata No 33, said by Misha Donat to have “a strong claim to be regarded as the first unequivocally great work in the history of the piano sonata”, is Haydn’s Sturm und Drang for a solo instrument. An ...

Sonata for Piano No. 1 Sonata for Piano No. 2, 'Sonata-fantasy' Sonata for Piano No. 3 Sonata for Piano No. 4 Sonata for Piano No. 5 Sonata for Piano No. 6 Sonata for Piano No. 7, 'White Mass' Sonata ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist ... The first nine violin sonatas were written in five years but represented an incredible creative trajectory breaking new boundaries at every ...

Released in print the next year, these revolutionary sonatas forever altered the cello repertoire by fundamentally redefining the relationship between the cello and the piano and promoting their ...

Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

Arguably the greatest pianist of his time, the legacy of Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) is perpetuated through his popular piano transcriptions and futuristic musical thinking. Commemorating the ...

Maszczyńska, Dominika 2020. Nannette and Johann Andreas Streicher - their role in shaping musical life in Vienna in the early 19th century. Notes Muzyczny, Vol. 1, Issue. 13, p. 49.

In 2011, Jonathan Biss started recording the Beethoven piano sonatas. He found that both writing and teaching about the Beethoven piano sonatas helped clarify his own ideas about the music he played.

His devotion to the art of composition led him to study with the composer Philip Lasser. As the Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist in piano at Smith College, he presented Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas ...

Piano applicants currently enrolled in a degree program at Mannes are not prescreened. The prescreening audition must include the following repertoire only: A prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered ...