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Rather confusingly, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, written during 1796 and 1797 isn't actually the first one he composed. The Piano Concerto No. 2 may have been published in 1801, but it was ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s never been a better time to buy a couple of extra tickets to The Cleveland Orchestra. Not one but four stellar soloists took the stage at Severance Music Center on Wednesday, ...

Johann Peter Pixis (1788-1874) and Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871) were both big names in 19th-century piano playing. Thalberg was talked of in the same breath as Liszt; Chopin dedicated his Fantasy on ...