No one is sure of the exact birth date of Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn, Germany in December 1770.

He was baptised on 17 December, so he was probably born the day before. His birthplace (pictured) is now the Beethoven-Haus museum.

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Praised for his emotional energy and technical finesse, Oliver Salonga has performed in the concert halls of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia, and China.

Born in Manila, Salonga, a child prodigy, gained national recognition and have done national concert tours after he won First Prize in National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in 1998 and in 2001.

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Professor Cooper’s edition does throw one blindingly obvious change at the music world. There are no longer 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, as books and performers will tell you, but 35. Not that Professor Cooper has discovered three more. Rather, he has reconsidered and admitted to the canon three early sonatas written when Beethoven was 12, usually set aside as juvenilia.

“I can find no reason why they shouldn’t be counted,” he said, “and indeed they were in the first complete edition of the sonatas, published just after Beethoven’s death by his friend Haslinger, who presumably knew what Beethoven wanted. They are fully fledged, three-movement works, and if they lack something in quality, you could say the same of some of the Opus 49 Sonatas, and you surely wouldn’t exclude those from the canon.

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From the Klavierfestival Ruhr in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, 2007

Daniel Barenboim, soloist and conductor
Staatskapelle Berlin

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