It's officially time to lock in, so you take a sharp inhale, situate at the comfortable studying location of your choice, click and then: music. You adjust your headphones, open your laptop as the ...

The premiere of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with himself as soloist, was a comedy of errors. The best musicians in town had been hired for another performance so the rehearsal was a disaster, ...

That Beethoven was enduring frustrations of going deaf, unrequited love and strife with patrons when he composed his Piano Sonata No. 23 might explain its dark and agitated feel throughout, until all ...