He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin ... suffering from hearing loss, Beethoven continued to compose strong, heroic and groundbreaking music.

The Brendels, father and son, give us Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello, and you will have to search long and hard – and possibly in vain – to hear performances of a comparable warmth and ...

Beethoven pioneered Romanticism and expanded previously strict ... Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance. Chopin is also among the ...

In part two of our interview, Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. He's the former band leader and music director for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas ... moved him to write more emotional pieces of music.