Artists Archive

Brahms composed the Haydn Variations during a summer retreat in 1873. The theme for the variations came into Brahms’ hands via his fascination with music manuscripts. In 1870, C.F. Pohl, Haydn biographer and librarian of …

Born in Berlin, Elena took her first piano lessons at the age of six and started winning first prizes in German national competitions shortly after. She was pre-schooled in the Paris Conservatoire before moving back …

Wieniawski composed two violin concertos, the second of which has become more popular than the first. Wieniawski himself performed the solo violin part of this D minor concerto in November of 1862. The first movement …

Born in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar in 1971, Anna Netrebko began singing at an early age. She subsequently enrolled to study at the legendary St Petersburg Conservatory where she was discovered by Valery …

The Quintet in G minor, K. 516, carries the date 16th May 1787 and was written during the period of the final illness of Mozart’s father, who died in Salzburg on 28th May. It is …