Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3 Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 7 in D (Op. 10, No. 3) of 1798 is the last of a set of three sonatas bearing a dedication to the Countess Anna Margarete von Browne. That inscription tells us something about the environment in which the young Beethoven found himself. He arrived in Vienna in 1792, not yet 22 years old. The city, already the musical capital of Europe, was founded on a system of commercial wealth and aristocratic patronage. It was an intensely competitive milieu in which pianist/composers (synonymous roles) vied with each other for the financial favors of noble benefactors. The names of these patrons are preserved on the scores of Beethoven and Haydn and Mozart: van Swieten, Lobkowitz, Kinsky. A year before the dedication of the sonatas, the Brownes gave Beethoven a horse in return for an earlier dedication - cash was not the sole artistic currency of the time.
Piano : Boris Leonidovich Giltburg (Hebrew: בוריס גילטבורג) Boris Giltburg is an Israeli classical pianist. He was born in a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia, on June 21, 1984 and began studying piano with his mother at the age of five. After emigrating to Israel, he studied with Arie Vardi between 1995 and 2007. He won 2nd prize (the top prize awarded) of the 2002 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Spain, where he performed the Bartók Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra. Since then Giltburg has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic with conductors such as Philippe Entremont, Christoph von Dohnányi, Mikhail Pletnev and Marin Alsop. In 2011, he won 2nd place at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.On 2 June 2013, he won the international piano competition Queen Elisabeth in Brussels.
