The Sonata in C major, Op 53, was published in Vienna in May 1805 with a dedication to Beethoven’s early friend and patron Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel, Count von Waldstein (1762-1823). Born in Vienna, ...

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. The ...

The Waldstein Sonata, which he wrote in 1804, was a breakthrough piece for Beethoven. It’s longer than his earlier sonatas but, more importantly, that sense of heroism and struggle which characterises ...

Next in the Beethoven 250 odyssey, Alice Keath brings you one of Beethoven's most revolutionary piano pieces - the brilliant 'Waldstein' Sonata.

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 6, 12, 13 (Quasi una fantasia), 16, 21 (Waldstein), 30, 31 and 32 Rudolf Serkin, piano (Sony Classical, 3-CD set). Serkin was exceptionally finicky when it came to ...

After virtuosic recordings of Liszt and Chopin, Ott turns her attention to Beethoven's two C major sonatas, available today. 2024 Fall Broadway Preview Next on Stage: Email: Sign-up: ...

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 ...

Beethoven dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 21 to his friend and patron Count Ferdinand von Waldstein. It’s considered one of his most technically challenging piano sonatas.

There’s a Mt. Everest element to Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas. Some pianists feel they have to scale them because they’re there; others because they find the music irresistible &#… ...