Composers Archive

On October 19, 1814 – about 207 years ago – Franz Schubert composed his first masterwork, the song Gretchen am Spinnrade – “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” – for solo voice and piano, on a …

Some years ago, before COVID, I used to attend annual concerts that were offered by the Carmel Bach Festival in California. Of course the festival included much music from the Baroque period, but other compositions …

During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was primarily known as a performer rather than as a composer. Few of his compositions appeared in print, and most important works were published long after his death. A …

Flutist Clara Andrada de la Calle holds solo flute positions in both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, with which she frequently appears as soloist. She has also appeared as …

Written in the three-movement form typical of Romantic concertos, the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninov is filled with the composer’s stylistic hallmarks: dazzling virtuosity and plush melody. It begins with an Allegro movement …