Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven ’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

When Daniel Barenboim begins his cycle of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas Wednesday night in Orchestra Hall, the event will have old-timers searching their memories for the last time they heard any … ...

To undertake all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a concentrated span is doubtless the most demanding feat–musically, technically and intellectually –any interpreter has had to face. Of to… ...

With more than 80 different recordings available, just about every pianist of note has interpreted Beethoven's famous piano sonata. Yet pianists continue to return to the piece in order to make it ...

Since he was a boy in Buenos Aires, Barenboim’s experience has embraced the music of Beethoven. “My earliest recollection of his music is hearing Arthur Rubinstein play the Appassionata Piano Sonata.

The December 2013 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features several concertos by Beethoven and a popular piano sonata.

A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...

One of the outcomes is a new recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, plus the late Diabelli Variations, to mark the composer's 250th anniversary.

The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works.

Today in Beethoven 250, Alice puts the spotlight – or rather moonlight – on Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No.14. A dark and quintessentially moody masterpiece, the 'Moonlight' Sonata has appeared ...

Piano Sonata No. 14, more commonly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is one of Beethoven’s most famous works. In this sonic journey, Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the sonata in a wider musical landscape ...