Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...

Beethoven wrote piano sonatas throughout his life, from the early pieces he wrote as virtuoso vehicles for himself to the highly distilled essays he crafted after deafness had put an end to his ...

Gilles Vonsattel first performed with Camerata Pacifica in 2017 and is now their principal pianist. He has played many Beethoven piano sonatas, but has been “genuinely” surprised by some that are ...

Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...

Beethoven's output for cello and piano spanned his lifetime -- starting with the two sonatas he composed in 1796; two near ...

'There’s no denying his clarity: fingerwork is immaculate (passagework, trills and tremolos are unfailingly neat) and textures are lucid' Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No 30 in E, Op 109; No 31 in A flat, ...

SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...