TEN years ago, pianist Peter Serkin made a Beethoven recording that included the “Moonlight” Sonata and the “Appassionata.” Moonlight was evidently on, or in, his mind, since even the agitated and ...

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 ...

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 by ...

Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s, begins his 2009-10 survey of the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas with a concert at 7:30 p ...

It’ ain’t easy — actually, it just ain’t possible — for me to cover every worthwhile musical event in this area. One of the many things I’ve been unable to attend is the cycle of Beethoven piano ...

Every now and then, the Getty Center adds music to the ways it contextualizes art. Currently, the museum is juxtaposing a handful of paintings by the 19th century German Romanticist Caspar David ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This fall, composer/educator Rob Kapilow's popular What Makes It Great? series ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s beloved “Moonlight” sonata is on the program as Frank Glazer, dean of Maine pianists, performs the third concert in his season-long review of the complete Beethoven piano ...