Beethoven's last piano concerto is also one of the most accomplished of them all. The title 'Emperor' seems to have stuck from the earliest performances of Beethoven’s music, although I doubt it’s a ...

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

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