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Robert Schumann composed his Märchenbilder, (Fairytale Pictures) while Schumann was in residence at Düsseldorf as Director of Music. This masterwork shows the composer in the idiom he knew best: a series of meticulously crafted and highly …

Tsotne Zedginidze began piano lessons at five, studying with his grandmother Nino Mamradze. Then at six, Tsotne started interpreting and composing and he became increasingly interested in music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He …

Composer Edward Elgar is my favorite British composer. I love his Violin Concerto, his Cello Concerto, and his Enigma Variations. Also, I actually would like to be able to meet him in my next life! …

After studying classical guitar, piano, jazz guitar and composition at the world-renowned Chetham’s School of Music for seven years, Alexandra Whittingham now studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Having picked up the …

Romanian pianist Radu Lupu enjoyed an outstandingly successful career. Born in 1945, he began piano studies at the age of six, and after only six years of study made his public recital debut; later he …