So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa town of Baden to his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries on ... the calm between two storms and is a set of variations on a theme that is more harmony than melody.

With all the turmoil in the world, this play is a reminder to ask, ‘What will you do to make this moment worth living?'" ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them ... the equivalent of the Goldberg Variations writ large. But which great artist? Of those ...

In what is arguably the most anticipated event of the Chicago dance season, the company presented the first of three performances Thursday evening at the Harris Theater.

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 ...

His first work to be published was Nine Variations for piano on a March of Dressler which he composed when he was 12. His first important lessons came from the court organist Christian Neefe who ...

Beethoven composed an opera, six symphonies, four solo concerti, five string quartets, six-string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios ...

Besides, the 30 variations on an aria ... and much later repurposed for piano, Ólafsson’s playing emphasised those qualities among the Goldbergs’ many elements. He may not have been playing late ...

“Franz Liszt’s transcriptions of the nine symphonies by Beethoven attest a fundamental achievement in the art of recreating orchestral timbres on the piano,” Buccio said ... certain dynamics and ...