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The name “Moonlight Sonata” was given to this music by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab five years after Beethoven’s death. This sonata consists of three movemens: Adagio sostenuto, allegretto and presto agitato. …

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his 2nd Piano Trio in 1944 during World War Two when he was 38 years old. Shostakovich had come to international attention with the writing of his 7th Symphony earlier in the …

Vanessa Benelli Mosell began her comprehensive musical studies at the age of three. At seven years old she was admitted at the International Piano Academy in Imola, giving her orchestral debut as soloist at the …

There is something indescribable for me about this music: It is joyful, yet also sad. Happy, yet also tragic. And the second movement is like the sounds of angels. These sounds need to be made …

Johann Sebastian Bach’s partitas are much grander and more technically challenging than his English Suites and French Suites, with larger individual movements. The Partita No. 1 in B flat, published in 1726, is quite an …