Composers Archive

Take a well-known melody, put it in the hands of a master musician, and what is the outcome? A set of emotions emerge one may have not really heard before. Just listen quietly and attentively …

Brahms composed his Intermezzi Opus 117 together with his Fantasien Op.116 during a short stay at Bad Ischl in Austria. This set is even more introspective compared to the previous opus. When Brahms sent this …

“Ständchen” (“Serenade”) is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, setting a poem of the same title by the German poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack. It is the second song in his collection …

The Sonata #8, titled “Pathetique”, hails from the early part of Beethoven’s career: the late 1700s, a time when the traditions of the Classical period were still dominant and Beethoven himself was largely content to …

I find that personally I enjoy more the so-called “Part II” of this work, because of its inclusion of music for angels and other delights. Also, I am often disturbed by Mahler’s seeming reference to …