Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Sonata quasi una fantasia,” more popularly known as the “Moonlight Sonata” (1802). (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the ...

A 92-year-old woman with dementia gave an incredible performance of Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano and the video has been going viral ever since it was posted on TikTok.

But imagine the highly pianistic ‘Moonlight’ Sonata – or others written during that same era, like the ‘Pathétique’ or ‘Tempest’ – being performed on a harpsichord. It’s an implausible thought. Having ...

The “Piano Man” is recalling a moment in which he was knocked unconscious by his own father after putting his own flare on Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata” during a piano recital as a child.

“Moonlight Sonata” is structured around the 11-year-old Jonas’s preparations for a recital where he plans to perform Beethoven’s titular work, a notoriously challenging 1801 piano piece.

“Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” isn’t a thriller, by any stretch. It is a very moving film by veteran documentarian Irene Taylor Brodsky about deafness, music, raising ...