After completing this concerto in 1806, the composer struggled to find anyone to perform it. So the work sat on a shelf, gathering dust, until its public premiere on 22 December 1808. Just imagine ...

In total he wrote just five concertos for the piano, but they're all pretty special in their own way. The fifth piano concerto ... that when Beethoven himself premiered the piece in 1803, it wasn't ...

The solo part of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto ... music’s gloomy refinement prevents anything like diminishing returns. This is Beethoven’s most thrilling and sophisticated fugue. He ...

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 - OCR Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 was composed in 1795 and was first performed in Vienna, Austria, by Beethoven as the solo pianist. The piece was ...