Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

‘A pale light glimmers above the whispered pianissimo triplets, from whose dark depths the grief-laden melody ascends ... Not long before the sonata’s end, Beethoven introduces a three-part fugato, a ...

The duo even worked together on the Kreutzer Sonata, initially dedicated ... include the following: What was Beethoven's complexion? He was described as having dark features.

2. Beethoven: Violin Sonata Op. 47 in A major, ‘Kreutzer’ (1802-3) Tolstoy was deeply stirred by this sonata, and especially by its dark, turbulent first movement - so stirred in fact that it ...