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 Sonata SeriesOur Beethoven piano sonata series continues today with the Piano Sonata No. 26, Op. 81A. Andreas Haefliger is our pianist. And we hear again today from Susan Kagan, author of ...

Many fortepianists play meticulous modern copies of instruments from the 1820s and 30s, but Olga Pashchenko has the real thing. She plays three of the best known Beethoven sonatas – the Waldstein Op ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...