In 1781, Swiss artist Henry Fuseli painted a portrait, “The Nightmare.” The portrait itself featured the illustration of a demon sitting on top of a sleeping woman’s chest. This piece of art rapidly ...

Beethoven’s Third Symphony marked the beginning of a musical revolution. It begins with two simple chords that completely surprised me last summer at the Bravo! Vail festival. I was working backstage ...

Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

In 1804 Beethoven wrote his magnificent and epoch-making third Symphony, which we know today as the ‘Eroica’. About three quarters of the way through the first movement the music climbs to a point of ...

The genius was Beethoven, and we were treated to a survey of the first four of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos. (The Fifth Concerto, performed on Sunday, is reviewed in subsequent column.) The ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn. A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra. In ...