What does the name “Beethoven” bring to mind? A plaster effigy of a tousle-haired, grimacing visage, perhaps, staring out from the top of a piano or from above the entrance to a concert hall ...

thanks to the brilliance and imagination with which Beethoven develops his instrumental writing that is at once often surprising, yet, at the same time, seemingly inevitable. This is exactly the ...

This is also important as there were more chromaticisms being used in Beethoven’s writing. In the exposition, the second theme is usually in a different key to the first theme (and the movement ...

During Beethoven’s 250th anniversary celebrations in 2020, New York City’s Carnegie Hall was just one of the venues around the country highlighting the composer’s music with a symphony cycle.