Curtis Institute of Music Courses

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

15 reviews

Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technica…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 17th Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 4

61 ratings at Coursera

Please join us for Part 4 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas course, taught by Curtis faculty member and extraordinary concert artist, Jonathan Biss. This course is new and contains separate sets of lectures and sonatas that we not previously discuss…

• Coursera
• 5-6 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 31st Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 5

43 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 5! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community. To begin, I recommend ta…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 10th Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2

156 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6

Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 6! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community. To begin, I recommend ta…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 3

104 ratings at Coursera

Welcome to Part 3 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 3. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 17th Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

From the Repertoire: Western Music History through Performance

2 reviews

Explore eight important works from different eras and genres of Western classical-music repertoire, through performances recorded at Curtis and discussion of each work’s historical context, composer, musical significance, and compositional design.

• Coursera
• 2-4 hours a week
• 25th Sep, 2014
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The World of the String Quartet

2 reviews

Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the internationally acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet, invites music listeners to the world of the string quartet repertoire and ensemble. Journey with him and interpretive analysis instructor Mia Chung through the hist…

• Coursera
• 2-3 hours a week, 7 weeks long
• 26th Oct, 2020
• Free Online Course (Audit)