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. Hear American pianist Garrick ...

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A few years ago Leif Ove Andsnes revisited Beethoven's Piano Concertos on what he called his "Beethoven Journey." We'll hear the second step with his performance of the Concerto No. 2 during our music ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

It is the artistic human-interest story to end them all. The most famous "Classical" composer spent the better part of his late composing period almost completely deaf, in the process completing a ...