Beethoven's association with Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel, Count Waldstein, goes back to the composer's days in Bonn, where they were both connected to the Electoral court. It may well have been ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's piano sonata, the Hammerklavier, Op. 106. Completed in 181, the work is considered to the most imposing of all Beethoven's 32 sonatas. Show more Stephen Johnson ...