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.

He turned to the piano and began playing Beethoven's ... We don't have recordings of Beethoven playing his music. We know he ...

Batiste believes that classical music is "ripe for transformation" — Beethoven included ... that brings people together around the piano. It's that thing that if you're at a party and you ...

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.