From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.

Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

Composer Beethoven The actress's piano teacher Yvonne Collier SAOIRSE Ronan is scaling new heights with noteperfect preparations for her latest role. The young star has confounded musical experts by ...

Víkingur Ólafsson will return to Bourgie Hall for a pair of recitals featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Known ...

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A rising Irish actress has confounded musical experts after learning to play a complicated Beethoven piano sonata in just 12 weeks. Saoirse Ronan, 17, from Co. Carlow, Ireland, had never played the ...

"I would never have believed that I could be so lazy as I am here. If it is followed by an outburst of industry, something worthwhile may be accomplished." So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa ...

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Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...