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 ...

Prince Lobkowitz, a native of Bohemia, was a leading patron of the arts in Vienna - a great music-lover and enthusiastic and capable violinist. He claimed his father forced him to learn the violin as ...

If the world’s most famous nursery rhyme had been written by the father of Romanticism... Crafted by Polish Canadian pianist, Daniel Vnukowski, the reworking retains the main melody of the nursery ...

Detail from the cover of Jordi Savall's Invocation a la Nuit, which features Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy. A composer writes the notes; musicians play the notes. Improvisation is now making a ...

A leading scholar says young pianists should follow in the spontaneous spirit of Bach and Beethoven Bach, Mozart and Beethoven all thrilled audiences with their spontaneous improvisations. But today’s ...

Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself Conrad Tao’s recital began with an improvisation and ended with a Beethoven ...

Beethoven was a master of improvisation and delighted Viennese audiences with his fantasizing on the piano. In memory of this, we have invited Olivia Trummer and her trio. Born in 1985 into a family ...

The annual piano festival organised by Lucerne Festival focuses this year on the work of Beethoven. As ever, established and emerging musicians will come to Lucerne to take part. Norwegian pianist ...