The pianist Péter Solymos's work encompassed teaching and performing, in addition to which he also spent considerable time preparing editions. An urtext edition of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas in three volumes, revised by him, was published at the beginning of the 1980s. In studying the great composer's manuscripts, Solymos came to the realization that Beethoven's ''representation of the music serves to help us understand the work; the form of the visual appearance is at one with the content. (....