This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano before he learned to speak in complete sentences ( Gillies 1990, 6 ).

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

This may have given him the confidence finally to complete a number of works that he had wrestled with over many years, such as the cantata Rinaldo, his first string quartet, third piano quartet, and most notably his first symphony.

There are several recordings of the major works for the solo piano ( including complete recordings of the piano sonatas and the shorter piano pieces, by Garrick Ohlsson, Alexander Paley and others ), and there are recordings of the individual sonatas by Claudio Arrau ( 1st Sonata ), Alfred Brendel ( 2nd Sonata ), Sviatoslav Richter ( 3rd Sonata ) and Leon Fleisher ( 4th Sonata ).

* 2011 – James Strauss, complete transcription for flute and harpsichord or flute and piano

Schnabel did much to popularize Beethoven's piano music, making the first complete recording of the sonatas, completing the set for the British label HMV in 1935.

Items from Vasco da Gama and Ivan IV have been recorded, as have numerous songs and the complete piano music.

In the MCC Theater production, his music will be performed by a piano “ orchestra ” – complete with a traditional piano, a toy piano, and a prepared piano ( a piano that has had its sound altered by attaching objects – such as tin foil, rubber bands and playing cards – to the strings ).

* The composer's arrangement of the complete work for piano solo

* The composer's arrangement of the complete work for piano duet ( two pianos )

Although the orchestration was not yet complete, act 2 was presented in a private performance in 1870 just prior to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War with Saint-Saëns playing the orchestral parts, which were largely improvised, on the piano.

The complete contents of Nancarrow's studio, including the player piano rolls, the instruments, the libraries, and other documents and objects, are now in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel.

In 1896, Theodore P Brown introduced and marketed the " Aeriol Piano ", which was the first substantially complete player piano.

For the recording of Brian's complete piano music, Cameo Classics employed digital technology.

( The cpo series of recordings of Loewe's complete ballads includes as well a recording of two piano sonatas and a " tone poem in sonata form ", with one of the sonatas-the E major of 1829-having a vocal part for soprano and baritone.

Born into a Huguenot family, youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school, and at the age of 9, despite having received no musical teaching, he wrote some complete songs.

Jimmy Blythe's recording of " Chicago Stomps " from April 1924 is sometimes called the first complete boogie-woogie piano solo record.

Among the items are the printer's manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, complete with Beethoven's hand-written amendments, that was used for the first performance in Vienna in 1824 ; Mozart's autograph of the wind parts of the final scene of The Marriage of Figaro ; Beethoven's arrangement of his monumental Große Fuge for piano four hands ; Schumann's working draft of his Symphony No. 2 ; and manuscripts of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2.

Thus began one of the most productive periods in Telemann's life: during his tenure at Eisenach he composed a wealth of instrumental music ( sonatas and concertos ), and numerous sacred works, which included four or five complete annual cycles of church cantatas, 50 German and Italian cantatas, and some 20 serenatas.

His recordings with the BSO include William Walton's symphonies and concertos for Decca, and the complete Tchaikovsky symphonies ( including the Manfred Symphony ) for Virgin Classics.

Kaufman, intrigued to learn that the four concertos were in fact part of a set of twelve, set about finding a full score and eventually recorded the other eight concertos in Zürich in 1950, making his the first recording of Vivaldi's complete Op.

* Streaming audio of the complete first, third and fourth concertos performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

* Streaming audio of the complete second, third and sixth concertos performed by the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam.

In 1987 he played the complete piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in New York with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and received on this occasion the orchestra's Honorary Ring.

Lill has made a number of recordings, including the complete piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Rachmaninoff and the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Prokofiev.

His repertoire includes more than seventy concertos, and he is acclaimed in particular as a leading interpreter of Beethoven, whose complete sonata cycle he has performed on several occasions in the UK, US and Japan.

He recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos twice as well, both with the Berlin Philharmonic ; the first from the early 1950s in mono with Paul van Kempen, and the later in stereo from the early 1960s with Ferdinand Leitner.

His studio recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas, made in the 1960s, display exceptional technique for a man in his seventies ( Decca 433882 ), as do the two Brahms concertos from about the same time ( Decca 433895 ).

Haitink has conducted and recorded a wide variety of repertoire, with the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Mahler, Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams, and the complete piano concertos of Beethoven and Brahms with Claudio Arrau notable among his recordings.

Another copy ( though less complete ) of the Italian original was found among manuscripts purchased by the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, a collection that also included numerous ornamented versions of slow movements of concertos and sonatas, written in Tartini's hand.

The Academy has since recorded the complete piano concertos and symphonies of Beethoven, and has recorded numerous Haydn symphonies and many of the Mozart piano concertos with fortepianist Robert Levin.

Recently, Malpiero's piano repertoire, including his complete concertos, has experienced a revival at the hands of noted Italian pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli.

He made a set of Prokofiev's complete sonatas and concertos ( with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ) for Sony Records.

These include two complete sets of the Brandenburg concertos, the Orchestral Suites and The Art of Fugue, several albums of Bach vocal cantatas, many Telemann, Vivaldi, many Mozart and Haydn works, but also award-winning records of Britten, Roussel and Hindemith pieces.

More recently, Stephen Hough recorded Rachmaninov's complete piano concertos and the Paganini Rhapsody using the composer's original score, also on the Hyperion label.

His recordings include piano concertos by Liszt with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the complete Tchaikovsky concerto cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra.

In addition, Leonhardt recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, and the complete secular cantatas, as well as the harpsichord concertos, Brandenburg concertos, and most of his chamber and keyboard music ; he recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations ( three times ), Partitas ( twice ), The Art of Fugue ( twice ), The Well-Tempered Clavier, French Suites, English Suites ( twice ), Inventions and Sinfonias, and many other individual works for the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ.

125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ).

That same year it released a Beethoven bicentennial set that included the 1935 Missa Solemnis with the Philharmonic and LPs of the 1948 televised concert of the ninth symphony taken from an FM radio transcription, complete with Ben Grauer's comments.

With her he played the complete Beethoven violin sonatas in public.

He also made one of the earliest recordings recording of a complete symphony: the Beethoven Fifth with the Berlin Philharmonic in November of 1913.

Noted for its smooth, sophisticated style, its seamless ensemble playing, and its sensitive interpretation, the quartet made some 200 recordings, among them the complete quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Following these changes, the quartet embarked on a successful series of recordings: a cycle of all six Bartok quartets ( dedicated to the memory of Ormai, who died in 1995 ) and a critically acclaimed complete Beethoven quartet cycle, as well as quartets by Smetana and Borodin.

The Takács Quartet " has been recording the complete Beethoven quartets, and their survey, now complete, stands as the most richly expressive modern account of this titanic cycle.

Towards the end of 2011, the Belcea Quartet will embark on an ambitious survey of the complete string quartets by Beethoven with cycles of concerts planned in the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden and the USA.

Their discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Bartók, plus various other works by Haydn, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvořák, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Schnittke.

The work took Beethoven only four months to complete, and is, unlike many of his works, without dedication.

Its live performances and recordings in a program of the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven have been received with enthusiasm, the group has been called " brilliant ", and a critic has stated the musicians are enjoying " their first golden age " since the days of Ormandy and Mitropoulos.

In 1993-94 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna.

Lill has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI ( Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with RSNO and Gibson ), ASV ( both Brahms Concertos with the Hallé and Loughran ) plus the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Tchaikovsky l with the LSO and Judd.

More recently, he has recorded the complete Prokofiev sonatas with ASV and his recent recording of the complete Beethoven Bagatelles and Piano Concertos with the CBSO and Weller is available on Chandos.

Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he also recorded.

He also recorded two sets of the complete Beethoven sonatas ( and one early, almost complete set on shellac 1926-1945 ), one in mono ( 1951 – 1956 ) and the other in stereo ( 1964 – 1965 ).