HCM

City, Nov. 25 -- Pianist Nguyen Duc Anh, who earned a master's degree at Freiburg Conservatory of Music in Germany , will perform in a concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birthday at the HCM City Opera House on November 28.

Anh will give a solo performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5, in E-flat Major, op. 73, known as the Emperor Concerto.

The three-movement work, written between 1809 and 1811, was the composer's last completed piano concerto.

The composition was first performed at the Palace of Prince Joseph Lobkowitz in Vienna in 1811.

Pianist Anh, 29, was born into a musical family in Hanoi. He started studying piano at the Vietnam National Academy of Music when he was seven years old.

He has won t...