Composers Archive

The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) was established many years ago in Toronto, Canada. In 1998 they joined the Stanford faculty, and the SLSQ has drawn praise since its inception for the intensity of its …

Johannes Brahms worked on the Second Piano Concerto for three years. He wrote to his good friend, Clara Schumann: “I want to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a …

Franz Schubert’s sonata #13 is the most direct and economical of the Schubert sonatas; it surely is one of the most endearing. The first movement’s main theme, although tailor-made for the keyboard, is another of …

Briefly explore the contrast in the life of a conductor and a violinist: 1. Herbert von Karajan (April 5, 1908 – July 16, 1989) was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor, one of the most …

Mozart wrote this concerto shortly before his death, in 1791, for the clarinetist Anton Stadler, the Austrian clarinet and basset horn player. The concerto was given its premiere by Stadler in Prague on October 16, …