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 ...

These seven piano sonatas define ... unfolding of its outer movements, while the Second (1939) frames piquant variations on a theme collected by Janáček with movements whose energy lacks deeper ...

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final ... Brawn brings strong contrapuntal awareness to the A major Sonata’s opening ...

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 ...