The 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven loom large in the history of music and even larger in the repertory of pianists. They are not simply the greatest sonatas for the instrument ever written by a single ...

In 1800 Ludwig van Beethoven dumped and re-wrote the whole second movement of his String Quartet in G, Opus 18, No. 2. Most scholars thought the original draft was lost, but a music professor from the ...

The Beethoven House in the western German city of Bonn has purchased an important original manuscript by composer Ludwig van Beethoven with the help of public and private donors. The Cultural ...

BEETHOVEN - THE YOUNG GENIUS: The passionate Sonata Pathétique, the high spirited Rage Over a Lost Penny, the deeply moving Largo e mesto from Sonata Opus 10 No. 3, and the exhilarating finale of ...