Artur Schnabel was the first pianist to record all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. The cycle, made in the 1930s, has just been entered into the... Artur Schnabel, one of the game-changing pianists of ...

"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

“And then I just thought, why not put the two together?” This casual account of decision making, an explanation without an explanation, was offered by pianist András Schiff during a recent ...

Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam has been hailed as one of the true-fire interpreters of “authentic” Beethoven. Playing on 19th-century pianos, similar to ones on which Beethoven played and performed, ...

LONDON (AP) — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94. Brendel's death was announced by ...

That’s right … in a series of concerts at the Mondavi Center that kicks off on Nov. 6, the nine celebrated Beethoven symphonies will be played by a solo pianist on a big, black Steinway concert grand.

It was quite a profound transition for a young Ludwig van Beethoven to go from being a celebrated virtuoso pianist not long after he arrived in Vienna from Bonn, Germany, in 1792, to feeling ...

With an eye towards 2020, the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, award-winning pianist Yael Weiss has embarked upon "A Beethoven Odyssey," a project that combines the complete set of Beethoven's ...

Featuring two piano concertos by the same composer on a single night’s program is nothing new. In 1790 Mozart performed two of his own piano concertos (as well as “a new great symphony” and other ...

Artur Schnabel, one of the game-changing pianists of the 20th century and one of the first piano stars of the phonograph, is being celebrated today by the Library of Congress. His recordings of ...