Beethoven completed his String Quartet op. 135 at Wasserdorf Castle in Gneixenhof, where he sought to recuperate with his nephew Karl after the latter's failed suicide attempt in summer 1826. It stand...
Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...
Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...
Bärenreiter führt die Urtext-Edition von Beethovens sämtlichen Klaviersonaten mit einem weiteren wichtigen Beitrag fort. Die viel gespielten Sonaten op. 2 Nr. 1, 2 und 3 entstanden in der Zeit, als de...
Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...
'Here's a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years': thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty 'Hammerklavier' Sonat...