So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa town ... It has in fact inspired more comment than perhaps any other piano sonata of its period. Lenin, for example, while recognising his shortcomings ...

The piano underwent significant improvements in Ludwig van Beethoven’s most active period. It is said that the German composer who died in 1827 aged 56 relied on different types of pianos at ...

The introduction uses the forte piano dynamic that's playing ... Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period whose music was heavily influenced by his predecessors ...

In the period between their two recordings of the Beethoven Piano Trios there had been just one personnel change. Daniel Guilet was replaced by ex­Juilliard Quartet second violin Isidore Cohen and yet ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music ... literature and theatre.

Japanese-English classical pianist Mitsuko Uchida, conductor Andris Nelsons, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offered the ...

Backhaus recorded Beethoven's Fourth Concerto in 1951. His piano tone as reproduced on the new CD sounds more than adequate, but the VPO strings are horribly glassy and shrill so much so as to affect ...

The first of those concerts, he explained, was to include Beethoven's song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte" (To the Distant Beloved) with McGrann on piano and tenor Michael ... masterworks from his ...