Anyone who has had a child give a piano recital, or has played in one, knows the exquisite terror involved. Now imagine the performer is deaf. “Moonlight Sonata ...

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Seventy-eight years before Thomas Edison gave the world the light bulb, Ludwig van Beethoven composed “Moonlight Sonata,” one of the most popular compositions in classical music. I read somewhere that ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith Referring to the Beethoven piano sonata universally known by the evocative nickname “Moonlight” (Op. 27, No. 2), Liszt ...

Sampling is a principle that's commonplace in today's modern music production world, yet the implicit understanding when using pre-made sample packs, loops and sounds, is that those original ...

Here’s how Beethoven inspired the Beatles’ ‘Because’... When Yoko Ono was mucking about with Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, John Lennon asked her to play him the chords again, but backwards. And when ...

Slate has a fascinating piece on why modern pianos can’t play old music the way it was intended — click through and scroll down to hear the difference between “Moonlight Sonata” on a piano from today ...