It's from earlier in Beethoven's life and isn't quite as epic, but it's full of great tunes and interesting developments. It's also worth noting that when Beethoven himself premiered the piece in 1803 ...

With extra notes added to the bass and treble, and the new sustaining pedal, this modern piano opened up fresh possibilities of resonance, dynamic range and attack. However, typically, Beethoven’s ...

By the time Beethoven wrote his later works the number of keys on the piano had expanded. An octave (12 notes) was added to the upper keys. Listen to the high notes from his Waldstein Sonata.

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This is notes on the fourth symphony. For today's listener, who knows all of Beethoven's symphonies, it takes some historical imagination to appreciate how his contemporaries successively received ...

I played them from memory confidently and never dropped a note. ... Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, composed between 1795 and 1822, are deservedly touchstones. Hans von Bülow, ...

As soon as new notes were added to either end of the keyboard, he used them, making them necessary to anyone wanting to play his work. From early on, piano makers asked for Beethoven’s opinion, and ...

BSO performs all 5 Beethoven piano concertos this weekend (review, photos) Updated: Jul. 30, 2022, 5:13 p.m. ... his hands seemed to pirouette from one note to another. Overall, ...

After the formal strides forward in his Op. 26 Sonata (see Recital 6) and the 'sonate quasi fantasie' pair of Op. 27 (see Recital 3), Beethoven appears to step back again with his next work in the ...

Fire up any online piano lesson or sheet music platform and one of the most popular pieces will inevitably be Beethoven’s Für Elise, the ubiquitous bagatelle that the whole world wants to play. This ...

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