As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.
Moises Kaufman's play about Beethoven, a modern-day musicologist and a shared obsession is came to the stage with scholarly advice from two University of Illinois musicologists, William Kinderman and Katherine Syer.
Did you know Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" served as the inspiration for Beethoven's 9th Symphony? Beethoven had been meaning to put the poem to music since....
