Naxos’ Easy-Listening Piano Classics presents a delightful range of music from Baroque masterpieces to beautiful works of the Classic and Romantic eras, specially selected for discerning listeners to enjoy at home or work, while relaxing, entertaining or travelling.

BEETHOVEN

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was born in the city of Bonn, but moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he spent the rest of his relatively short (he died aged 56) yet highly productive life. While best known, perhaps, for popular large-scale orchestral works such as his concertos and symphonies, he also composed string quartets and other chamber music, songs and, of course, a large amount of music for his ‘own’ instrument, the piano. In each genre, Beethoven was to some extent a pathbreaker, transforming the models he inherited from his predecessors or the approach taken by his contemporaries into something radically unique and bequ