Beethoven Archive

Beethoven develops the opening movement of his concerto #3 along the general lines of Classical concertos, but he pays specific obeisance to Mozart’s C minor Concerto near the end. Where the first movements of most …

The first movement of the sonata #18 is a total delight to listen to, from the surprising harmony that opens the piece, to the richly textured chord response and thematic group that emerges from it. …

The Symphony #3 by Beethoven was, in my view, a revolutionary work in the development of Music. The foundational idea of the first movement of Beethoven’s Third Symphony is a narrative of struggle, which is …

Born in Nizhny Novgorod, Igor Levit moved to Germany with his family at the age of eight. He completed his piano studies at Musikhochschule Hannover with the highest score in the history of the institute. …

Orchestral and Opera conductor, Carlos Kleiber, was—in my view— the greatest conductor of the past 100 years. Kleiber was born in 1930, the son of eminent Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber. Kleiber has conducted the Vienna …