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 ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

For years, a rumor has circulated that Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony had ... though Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos showed no measurable impact. The exact mechanism behind these effects ...

In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters. Not long before the sonata’s end, Beethoven introduces a three-part fugato, a lyric inspiration of rare beauty, limpid in D. In the context of this ...

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final destination here with Vol 9. My reviews of previous volumes characterised the ...

Includes extracts from Jan Dussek's Piano Sonata Opus 35, Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata ... complicated music took the musical establishment by storm in the early 20th century.