Best of all, Beethoven does not repeat himself ... Listen to Beethoven’s piano sonatas on Apple Music and Spotify. As a pianist, Beethoven began to make his name in Vienna, where his remarkable ...

‘Beethoven The New Complete Edition’, the most complete Beethoven anthology ever produced, includes over 175 hours of music on 123 discs. To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ...

His music was heavily influenced ... in scale and length of the movements. Beethoven develops the famous ‘fate’ motif extensively and the movements all become much longer.

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studied music in Leipzig with Beethoven’s friend and ...

Beethoven is renowned as a great composer. Many people across the world know his name, that he wrote his best music after he became profoundly deaf and can perhaps hum the first few bars of his ...

The pianist recalls with particular fondness several events led by former Music Director (now emeritus ... “Overall, when you play all five, you’re inspired by how Beethoven has grown the piano ...