Composers Archive

Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457 was composed during Mozart’s Vienna years. It was published in 1785 as Fantasia and Sonata in C Minor, containing both Fantasia in C Minor, K. …

Drawing on the composition principles of which were used frequently by César Franck, Debussy’s String Quartet Opus 10 stands on the threshold between the Romantic tradition that had predominated Western music, while also looking forward …

Robert and Clara Schumann were two musical greats who were crazy about each other from the very beginning. For a while they had to keep their relationship a secret because Clara’s father didn’t approve of …

This is one of Beethoven’s wonderful masterpieces. The composer gave the third movement the title “Gesangvoll”, which roughly translates into “In a singing style”. Like many of his works, the Beethoven 109 is truly an …

Edward Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole is not structured as one might expect a nineteenth-century concerto to be. Instead of the normal three, or maybe four, movements, we have five. The first movement announces grandiose pretensions in its …