Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "There is a time in the piano music world: before the 'Waldstein' Sonata and after the 'Waldstein' ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) devoted his life to expanding musical form. The symphony, the concerto, and the string quartet all grew from young adulthood to full maturity during Beethoven’s career ...

Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Steven Osborne, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 8, 'Pathétique' Steven Osborne, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No.

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 ...

Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein was the young Beethoven's first great patron in Bonn - and his name will live for ever as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata opus 53. Count ...

Beethoven thought that his Waldstein and Appassionata sonatas for solo piano were some of the best he ever wrote. History agrees with him: These famous masterpieces have been studied and worshiped by ...

Sonata for Piano No. 7 Solomon, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 8, 'Pathétique' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Solomon, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 13, 'quasi una fantasia' ...