Johannes Brahms sent Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 manuscript copy to Clara Schumann wife of late Robert Schumann; her response was “I must send you a line to tell you how excited I am about your ...

Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp 34, 35 and 76). It’s been long discontinued but he’s now returned to that ...

Pianist Glenn Gould popularized Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations with his landmark 1955 recording. Might Moisés Kaufman’s Tony-nominated play “33 Variations” — running this month at the Ahmanson Theatre ...

Igor Levit’s late Beethoven sonatas (11/13) and Bach Partitas (10/14) on Sony Classical have already made bold declarations of his pianistic and artistic prowess. Now he confirms his appetite for the ...

An often-overlooked piano work of Ludwig van Beethoven has a starring role in a new play in Washington, D.C. Characters in 33 Variations include Beethoven himself, and a 21st century musicologist ...

In 1819, Anton Diabelli, a Viennese music publisher, composed a little waltz and sent it to dozens of composers—he wanted each of them to write and send him a single variation, which he’d publish ...

We hear the "Variations on a Theme of Beethoven" that Camille Saint-Saens wrote for two pianos. Our pianists Maxim Mogilevsky and Svetlana Smolina, in concert at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...