While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist ... The first nine violin sonatas were written in five years but represented an incredible creative trajectory breaking new boundaries at every ...

A few weekends ago, I attended a marathon performance of all of Beethoven's violin sonatas in a single concert, organized by ...

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.