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Nina Simone & JS Bach

Nina Simone plays a stunning Bach-style fugue in the middle of one of her classic songs

Star Wars Imperial March in the style of Beethoven

Star Wars ‘Imperial March’ in the style of Beethoven sounds momentous and sad

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Solo pianist plays every single orchestral line in painstakingly brilliant Chopin concerto

Solo pianist plays every single orchestral line in painstakingly brilliant Chopin concerto

Hip-hop dancer glides to Philip Glass piano music

Hip-hop dancer’s feet ‘glide’ to Philip Glass in breathtakingly fluid performance

Bill Bailey plays The Star Spangled-Banner in a minor key

Comic genius Bill Bailey proves The Star-Spangled Banner sounds way better in a minor key

Videos

Gabriela Montero Hary Potter

Pianist instantly transforms John Williams’ Harry Potter theme into epic Baroque counterpoint

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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

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.