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10 of Chopin’s best pieces of music

Best Chopin music: 10 essential pieces by the Romantic composer

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Toddler is moved to tears by Beethoven

Toddler moved to tears hearing his sister play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata on piano

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Can Timothée Chalamet play guitar and piano?

Can Timothée Chalamet really play piano? Watch his Bach performance in Call Me By Your Name

Harry Connick Jr audience claps

Jazz pianist finds ingenious way to correct audience clapping on the wrong beat

Delirious dog sings unimaginably virtuosic vocal solo in a piano room

Delirious dog sings virtuosic vocal solo in a piano room

What is Chopsticks? Two girls play on piano

What is ‘Chopsticks’ – and why does it have so many variations?

TikTok piano names

A TikTok composer is painstakingly setting every name to beautiful piano music

Chopin and Rachmaninov piano mashup

Pianist melts together Chopin and Rachmaninov in virtuosic display of musicality

Virtuoso pianist perfectly syncs her playing with Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto scene

Virtuoso pianist perfectly syncs her playing with Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto scene

When a grand piano string explodes...

When your Chopin is so virtuosic that a grand piano string explodes.

Incredible blind, autistic pianist Derek Paravicini can play any piece after hearing it once

Meet the blind, autistic piano genius, who can play any piece after hearing it once

AI pianist plays ‘unplayable’ black MIDI music

This AI pianist performed an 'unplayable' piano piece and it's terrifying

Confounding child's clavier

A music theory professor shared this keyboard. It raises many questions.

Adrien Brody and Nicholas Cage playing musical instruments in films

11 actors who learned to play a musical instrument for films (and one who definitely didn’t)

Courteney Cox delights the Internet by casually nailing the ‘Friends’ theme on piano

Courteney Cox delights the Internet by casually nailing the ‘Friends’ theme on piano

The time a hoard of gold coins were found in a Shropshire piano

The time a gold treasure hoard was mysteriously found inside an upright piano

Christopher Plummer was a classically trained pianist, and loved Rachmaninov

Christopher Plummer was a classical pianist, and played Rachmaninov between Sound of Music scenes

Anastasia Vasilyeva plays piano as police raid her Moscow flat

Surreal moment Navalny ally plays Beethoven as Russian police raid her home