What was Beethoven thinking? That may sound more like the premise for an esoteric academic paper than a viable piece of theater. But with the help of seven talented actors and a script by Moisés ...

What did music sound like to him? British poet Ruth Padel tries to fathom this mystery, and other long-mythologized strands of the composer's life story, in "Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life," ...

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 ...

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 ...

“And then I just thought, why not put the two together?” This casual account of decision making, an explanation without an explanation, was offered by pianist András Schiff during a recent ...

In a follow-up to his refreshing recordings of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas and five piano concertos, the British pianist Paul Lewis has now turned to Beethoven’s other great piano score –- the 33 ...

Among Ludwig van Beethoven’s prodigious gifts was an ability to transform the most mundane materials into something exquisite. Perhaps the most famous example of this is his “Diabelli Variations,” Op.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page By David Allen It is only three or four years since Igor Levit came to widespread attention, but such is the intelligence and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Zachary Woolfe Andras Schiff’s latest traversal of Bach’s keyboard works, a two-year project, ended on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall with ...

(33) Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, 'Diabelli Variations' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Pier Paolo Vincenzi, Piano Pier Paolo Vincenzi appears to be the first pianist to offer the complete ...

All throughout this new year, in Boston and around the world, music lovers will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Many of his most famous works, like ...