Jane Jones has a glimpse into the heart of the contradictory composer. When I skipped practice and decided that I wasn’t made for music, I reckoned without Beethoven. It’s years since my schooldays ...

TEN years ago, pianist Peter Serkin made a Beethoven recording that included the “Moonlight” Sonata and the “Appassionata.” Moonlight was evidently on, or in, his mind, since even the agitated and ...

Beethoven thought that his Waldstein and Appassionata sonatas for solo piano were some of the best he ever wrote. History agrees with him: These famous masterpieces have been studied and worshiped by ...

You have to hand it to the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth for trying something different once in a while. Saturday afternoon’s concert, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, featured the ...

The first years of the 19th century found Beethoven at a crucial point of transition in his career. Having mastered the Viennese high Classical style for which Haydn and Mozart served as paradigms, he ...

"I would never have believed that I could be so lazy as I am here. If it is followed by an outburst of industry, something worthwhile may be accomplished." So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa ...

When it comes to novels about musicians, the old maxim, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," immediately comes to mind: There's something ineffable about great music, and trying ...