Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827 ... six-string sonatas, seven piano sonatas, five sets of piano variations, four overtures, four trios, two sextets, and 72 songs. Even in full-blown deafness ...

Now that he has moved to London, as a more than worthy pendant, the BPO has released a compelling set of the Beethoven piano concertos from 2010 with Mitsuko Uchida, a cycle that possesses all the ...

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist ... such as using a big brass ear trumpet and a contraption fixed inside his piano which he bit down on to try to feel the vibrations ...

The timing was unfortunate for Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday celebration ... “I had been thinking of filling in the gaps in Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas—there were a few that I had never ...

Ludwig van Beethoven had his hands full before the premiere ... When a choir came on stage, the pianist could provide assistance from the piano if necessary," says Kraus. As a milestone in music ...

St. Bartholomew Catholic Church will celebrate the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s 255th anniversary in the latest ...

With all the turmoil in the world, this play is a reminder to ask, ‘What will you do to make this moment worth living?'" ...

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1746; Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler ... "An die ferne Geliebte" (To the Distant Beloved) with McGrann on piano and tenor ...

Directed by Christopher Nupen 1970 was the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth and, to mark the occasion, ...