Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata are available below ... You can also read a general introduction to Beethoven's piano sonatas.

Can you hear there are three notes on the same pitch and then one (the last one) at a lower pitch? Beethoven was in appearance ... contraption fixed inside his piano which he bit down on to ...

Even in full-blown deafness, Beethoven was still able to compose by placing one end of a wooden stick onto his piano and clenching the other end with his teeth. When notes were struck, the ...