TEN years ago, pianist Peter Serkin made a Beethoven recording that included the “Moonlight” Sonata and the “Appassionata.” Moonlight was evidently on, or in, his mind, since even the agit ...

But in her new novel, Appassionata, former musician Eva Hoffman manages to avoid this fate by leaving out any awkward or poetic descriptions of the music itself. The novel follows Isabel ...

Let’s get the name out of the way first. Beethoven composed his F minor Piano Sonata in 1804, and it was published in Vienna three years later, but it wasn’t named the 'Appassionata' for another 30 ...

Alexander gave a short talk to explain why the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was willing to listen to Beethoven's piano sonata no. 23 "Appassionata" every day, and then performed this famous ...