Composers Archive

The quartet opus 50 no. 1 opens with Haydn setting himself the challenge of creating an entire movement out of brief motifs and incomplete notions. The cello starts alone, trudging along on a single repeated …

Great women and men are not quickly forgotten. However, ever so often I reminder is in order: Yehudi Menuhin grew up in San Francisco, where he studied violin from age four and where his performance …

Pavane for a Dead Princess (in French: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte) is a luxurious ceremonial dance for piano by French impressionist composer Maurice Ravel. Later it was also transcribed to become an orchestral work. …

Yuja Wang was born in Beijing on February 10, 1987. An only child, she grew up with a dancer mother and percussionist father. She took up the piano at six, was identified as a major …

The historical evidence suggests that the sketches for the Symphony #5 by Tchaikovsky were done while he was at Frolovskoye between 9/21 May and 23 May of 1888. Probably it was this phase of the …