While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...

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Sonata for Piano No. 30 Geoffrey Saba, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 31 Geoffrey Saba, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 32 Geoffrey Saba, Piano ...