AMESBURY — Florence Ruth Wilson came into the world on June 23, 1904, just one year after Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the world's first working airplane for 12 seconds over the dunes at Kitty Hawk, ...
Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1798) Opus 49: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor (1805) Opus 78: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major ("A Thérèse") (1809) Opus 106:Piano Sonata No.
No two of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are alike. Even more than in his string quartets, which similarly span his creative life, he seemed to make new strides in form and motivic development in each ...
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Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No 3 in C, Op 2 No 3; No 29 in B flat, ‘Hammerklavier’, Op 106 (Marc-André Hamelin) Peter J Rabinowitz Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Hamelin offers a freshness that few can ...
On the 14th floor of a 15-storey building near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Colette Maze, born in 1914, looks to the clouds for inspiration, saying music is more important for her than any type of food ...
Stephen Johnson scales the extraordinary heights of Beethoven's giant among piano sonatas, the Hammerklavier. Completed in 1818, Opus 106 is the most imposing of all Beethoven's 32 sonatas for piano.