Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Poignant, proud, beautiful, complicated, crazy, monumental..." Just some of the words Australian ...

Although German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is known primarily for his symphonies and solo piano pieces, his canon of compositions runs much deeper. Among Beethoven's other accomplishments are his ...

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 ...

Our series of Beethoven piano sonatas continues with the pair of short sonatas that make up Beethoven's Op. 49. Kirill Gerstein plays the Piano Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1, and Louis Lortie has the Piano ...

Peter McCallam, associate professor of musicology at the University of Sydney, found the 32 bars of handwritten musical notation while looking at the sketchbook at Berlin 's state library. Most of ...

The UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...

Much of this success was due to a disregard of composition conventions and rules, pushing the performers and their instruments to their limits. Today there are many artists who have recorded and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IS THIS Beethoven's last work for piano? The Sydney musicologist Peter McCallum believes it is. The 32 bars of handwritten musical ...

Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, who is considered the top authority on Beethoven, is embarking on a seven-day journey with Korean audiences, performing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. In his ...