From Beethoven’s aching solo piano works to Tchaikovsky’s swelling ballet themes ... The ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, his most famous solo piano piece alongside ‘Für Elise’, feels freeform and almost ghostly ...

And sometimes… that piece goes on become their most famous work. here are some extreme cases of famous works which great masters really hated. Tchaikovsky penned the 1812 Overture in about six weeks ...

Think Beethoven wrote the only famous 5th symphony? Think again. On today's show, we hear the great fifth symphony of Tchaikovsky. A piece written after he had worried in writing whether he was ...

Working quickly and producing a daft piece that he dismissed as “very loud and noisy,” Tchaikovsky musically ... the 1971 Ken Russell movie, “the famous cannons fire as chorus girls kick ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a ...

Each boasts an International Tchaikovsky Competition gold medal ... he didn’t miss a beat in, of all pieces, Ravel’s “Jeux d’Eau” (Water Games). Martha Graham Dance Company reminds ...

“The Symphony No. 5” was composed in 1888 by the Russian composer Tchaikovsky (1840 –1893 ... has made it one of the composer's most famous works for piano, as well as one of the most well-known ...