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Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

With the sonatas op. 31, composed in 1802, Beethoven brought together piano sonatas as a group for the last time. The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the middle work in D minor, whose drama...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

Composed in 1809-10, Beethoven's Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements 'Das Lebewohl' (The Farewell), 'Die Abwesenheit' (The Absence) and 'Das Wiedersehn'...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

'Here's a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years': thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty 'Hammerklavier' Sonat...

Here you have a sonata that will give pianists a hard time, one that will be played in 50 years' time, Beethoven is said to have written to the publisher Artaria about his enormous Sonata in B flat ma...

The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

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In October 1801, Beethoven offered the Vienna Art and Industry Comptoir a "large sonata for forte piano". His Sonata in D major, published the following year, has been inextricably linked with this ep...

In a letter to Breitkopf & Härtel, Beethoven described the little sonata op. 79 as a "Sonate facile" or "Sonatine". It is an indispensable part of piano lessons for advanced beginners. The creation of...

Published in 1784, Mozart's Sonata in A major 'for clavier solo', with its famous 'Alla Turca' finale, is one of the most popular works in the entire piano literature. After a section of the lost auto...

The Sonata in B minor op. 58 (1844) is Chopin's third and most important contribution to this genre. The editors have arrived at a revised reading of the work through a fundamental reassessment of the...

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

In 1845/46, Chopin composed his bel canto-inspired "Barcarolle" in F sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and sometimes...

Fauré's "Pavane" for orchestra was composed in 1887, followed in the same year by a version for choir and orchestra. Three decades later, Sergei Djagilev would have the work danced by his Ballets russ...

A number of questions regarding Beethoven's most famous bagatelle, 'Für Elise', remain unanswered until today: What happened to the complete autograph and who was 'Elise'? The bagatelle was written be...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

Fauré composed his 5 Impromptus from 1881-1883 and 1906-1909 in two different creative phases. Inspired by Chopin, his brilliant early Impromptus op. 25, 31 and 34 resemble lyrical etudes that seem im...

With this early cycle (1863/64), Fauré follows in the footsteps of Mendelssohn's "Lieder ohne Worte" (Songs without Words) whilst at the same time enrolling into the French tradition of the "Romance s...

Recorded as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's piano sonata by Éric Heidsieck in 1972, it was only in 2010, almost 200 years after its composition in 1828, that musicologist Angela Mace was able to attribu...