Composers Archive

Composer Richard Strauss and his wife, Pauline, were married for about 55 years. She was an operatic Soprano, and he wrote many songs for her. Most of these songs were highly emotional, and dealt with …

Mozart’s piano sonata KV 521 is one amazing composition. Two pianists sit at a single keyboard and they seemingly perform for each other’s pleasure. One pianist plays a theme. The partner responds; then later they …

Composer Joseph Haydn composed 104 symphonies, but Schubert did just 9, and one of them was “unfinished”. But Schubert was only 31 when he died… My personal favorite is the Schubert #5, and the reason …

Several years ago, in 2017, I created my first post about pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau. You can read that first post here: https://myclassicalnotes.com/2017/10/introducing-elena-fischer-dieskau-pianist/ Today I am writing again about Ms. Fischer-Dieskau, because her new CD has …

Natalia Trull began studying piano in her native St. Petersburg, Russia. Her performance career was launched when she won first prize at the Belgrade International Piano Competition in 1983. However, the biggest success came in …