Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas together form ... The first opens with a ferocious ‘French Overture’-like introduction, ushering in a stormy, violent allegro that eventually burns itself ...

‘In his last compositions Beethoven makes music.’ There is a direct parallel between the political climate of the time and Beethoven’s music. Just as the French Revolution overthrew established ...

Beethoven’s five piano concertos trace a path from Classicism to Romanticism and are masterpieces of a genre he revolutionized. The first three show him as the young lion of Vienna, the fourth ...

Going backward, at least in opus numbers, Grimaud began with Brahms’s Op. 116. These are “Seven Fantasies,” which are three ...

Beethoven and the Piano (Jan ... of his youth (in Mozart's era), through his acquisition of a more robust French Érard, to the far more powerful British and Austrian pianos that sparked his ...

Brahms’s Fantasies, Op. 116, is actually another collection of intermezzos leavened with the fiery pieces the composer called ...

Beethoven wrote his only opera at a time of Europe-wide upheaval amid the turmoil and fall-out of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And in Fidelio he addresses some of his life-long ...

In recent seasons, important performances have included Bach's Matthäus-Passion with the Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas; ...

An international team of scientists has successfully sequenced the genome of the legendary composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, for the first time ever. The scientists examined Beethoven’s genes to ...

Bouzereau interviewed many of Williams’ collaborators and admirers for his documentary, including Spielberg and George Lucas, ...

Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there.