Beethoven reportedly said that the three piano sonatas he published as Op. 31 represented a "new path" for his compositional style. That remark may or may not tell us much - it comes down to us from ...

Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: I. Allegro vivace Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: II. Adagio grazioso Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op ...

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...

Andras Schiff explores Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in an exclusive series of lecture recitals at London's Wigmore Hall. Listen to him dissect Piano Sonata no. 18, Op 31 no 3 in E flat major.

(15) Variations and a Fugue on an original theme, 'Eroica' Andreas Staier, Fortepiano The greatest crisis of Beethoven’s life came in 1802, and was expressed in his heartfelt Heiligenstadt Testament.