Composers Archive

Yuja Wang was born in Beijing in February 1987 and was encouraged at a young age to make music by her dancer mother and percussionist father. She is now an internationally recognized concert pianist. Yuja …

For me and for every young violinist the sound of Schubert’s sonatinas for violin and piano is very familiar. The title “sonatinas” is sometimes used, and it is derived from the posthumous score of 1836; …

Francesco Piemontesi is a pianist with a wide repertory and he specialization in Mozart and the early Romantics. He has appeared with many leading orchestras and at major venues in Europe and the U.S., performing …

Beethoven wrote his first violin sonatas, a set of three (Op. 12) in 1797-98. Six more appeared by early 1803, making a fairly compressed time span for a medium in which Beethoven was to write …

The song “Nacht und Traume” by Franz Schubert was created out of a combination of two of Collin’s poems. It was meant as a memorial and tribute to the poet, a greatly admired friend of …