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Pianist Helene Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence, France, and she began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was …

There are times when I listen to music that moves me, I find that words are inadequate. Today is such a time. As such, all I want to do is to share with you how …

Beethoven held a particular fondness for the Piano Sonata in F-sharp major, regarding it as one of his finest compositions. He dedicated the work to his student, the Countess Thérèse von Brunswick, whom some scholars …

Rudolf Buchbinder was born on 1 December 1946 in Leitmeritz, a market town in Czechoslovakia. He made meteoric progress on his parents’ piano and, at the age of five, became the youngest student ever to …

Mozart composed about 20 solo piano sonatas, from roughly 1775 through the summer of 1789. Midway through that sequence is the Sonata in A, K 331. This sonata was one of three collectively published in …