It has in fact inspired more comment than perhaps any other piano sonata of its period. Lenin, for example, while recognising his shortcomings as a music critic, wrote: "I know nothing that is ...

Many works include sonata in their title, perhaps one of the most famous being Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 – better known as his ‘Moonlight Sonata.’ It remains one of the composer’s most beloved ...

While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

Guest artist Fanya Lin perfoms works by Scriabin, George Crumb, Saint-Saëns, and featuring Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Fanya is a top prizewinner of the ...

Violinist Hyeri Choi and Pianist Mark Neiwirth will be presented in an Idaho State University faculty concert on May 14 at ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.

Thus, when the dance returns, it too appears to have taken on something of the mood of barely suppressed pain that is the sonata’s abiding characteristic. It’s been said that the work’s undeniably ...