Beethoven: the most beautiful piano music

Beethoven's position in musical history is impossible to overestimate: he was a titanic figure who took the forms of the classical period and instilled with the ardent spirit of nascent romanticism. But while on the one hand Beethoven's music defined for later generations the concept of romantic heroism and fiery individuality, it also plumbed the profoundest depths of the human soul – nowhere more so than in works featuring the piano, the instrument on which the young composer was a renowned virtuoso.