The Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival ... with chamber concerts scheduled across Poland, in cities such as Katowice, Wrocław, Sopot, Jelenia Góra, Radom, Kazimierz Dolny and Starachowice.

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...