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The Impossible Note (II): a theoretical explanation
In our June 2015 article we examined the first edition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonata n. 14 by the Viennese publisher Johann Cappi. Part II of the Impossible Note is a partial musical analysis of the Sonata’s first movement, the Adagio Sostenuto. It aims to provide a solution for the reading D# in bars 11 and 20. >> READ MORE
The impossible note in Beethoven’s opus 27 no.2
Through a strange concurrence of circumstances, the notes of Beethoven’s Sonata number fourteen have come to haunt us again. An article by Birgitta Arts and Sietse Kok. >>READ MORE
From Beethoven to Brahms: a masterclass
IN CONVERSATION WITH TOBIAS KOCH
Tobias Koch is a versatile specialist of the pianoforte and other keyboard instruments. He teaches at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. In his continuous exploration of sound, he is firmly rooted in the present, and with a forward view he tries to understand what has been done in the past.
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Would you like to submit an article, post a short news item, share your research, publish your concert announcement or another related feature? >>READ MORE
‘A turbulence as exciting as music from Stockhausen’
SUBMITTED by ROBIN MACONIE
The aims of the Stein 1802 Project are very dear to my heart. As a student of Stockhausen in 1964–65, living in Cologne, I vividly recall taking the train to Bonn and visiting Beethoven’s house, breathing the air and sharing the same dimly lit upstairs passageways as the composer, their heavily waxed wooden floors worn uneven underfoot. >>READ MORE
Beethoven’s Waldstein composed on Erard or F&S Stein?
FIRST ONLINE PUBLICATION – DOWNLOAD PAGE
A recent study and restoration of a pianoforte initially attributed to Nannette Streicher reveals that it is in fact an instrument built by the firm Geschwister Stein in 1802. >>READ MORE