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During World War I, French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) wrote a six-movement suite for solo piano titled Le tombeau de Couperin. A “tombeau” (“tomb” in French) is a musical tribute to someone who has passed …

As a music lover, I frequently watch and listen to the creative, encouraging style in which Andras Schiff teaches his students. In the distant past, teachers used rulers to hit their students when the teacher …

I have been admiring Mr. Cho’s playing for some time now. Enjoy his performance of this music:

Schumann’s pioneer quintet became the model for a small but select line of similar works by other composers – Brahms, Franck, Dvorak, Fauré, Elgar, Reger, Bloch and Shostakovich. It is interesting that, with a single …

Mussorgsky composed his work titled “Pictures at an Exhibition” first as a composition for piano solo. Later it was orchestrated beautifully by Maurice Ravel. Quite often this work is performed in correctly in that the …