Beethoven's first three piano sonatas were dedicated to the figure who had inspired him to move from his home town of Bonn to Vienna, Joseph Haydn. No. 2 is notable for the way we see Beethoven ...
Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...
Sonata for Piano No. 25 Mari Kodama, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 24 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Mari Kodama, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven, ...
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From Haydn and Beethoven to Weinberg and Rachmaninov, Marc-André Hamelin reveals the piano sonata as a form of breadth, ...