From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples ... Sonata at the piano, Lennon ...

In 1804 Beethoven wrote his magnificent and epoch-making third Symphony, which we know today as the ‘Eroica’. About three quarters of the way through the first movement the music climbs to a ...

For one of the most famous ballads of all time, Carmen freely admitted that he lifted the chords for the verse of the song from the slow movement of Rachmaninov’s emotionally-charged Piano ...