Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...

As a student, Levit spent years meticulously polishing a single piano sonata. In many ways it taught him all he knows about this ‘no bullshit’ composer who wrote music of the future Opus 2, No 2. The ...

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 ...

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"I would never have believed that I could be so lazy as I am here. If it is followed by an outburst of industry, something worthwhile may be accomplished." So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa ...

Piano Trios, Movements: No. 1 in E flat, Op. 1/1 Beaux Arts Trio Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Piano Trios, Movements: No. 2 in G, Op. 1/2 Beaux Arts Trio Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Piano Trios, ...