Everyone needs a hobby outside of work, and for Al Pacino, playing the piano was once his – so much so he thought he was Beethoven for a bit.

His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors ... This is also important as there were more chromaticisms being used in Beethoven’s writing. In the exposition, the second theme is usually ...

What does the name “Beethoven” bring to mind? A plaster effigy of a tousle-haired, grimacing visage, perhaps, staring out from the top of a piano or from above the entrance to a concert hall ...

The ballet portrays in music and dance the classical ... thanks to the brilliance and imagination with which Beethoven develops his instrumental writing that is at once often surprising, yet ...