Composers Archive

Although he made a short preliminary sketch in August 1829, Mendelssohn composed his Scottish Symphony in earnest from late 1840 to January 20, 1842. He dedicated the score to “H.M. Queen Victoria of Great Britain and …

Fazıl Say was born in 1970. He was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons …

Yo-Yo Ma’s parents trained their child to be cellist as well as a songwriter during an early age. He was born in 1955 to Chinese parents in Paris, France. His mother is a singer while …

Accompanied by his mother, Mozart had set out from Salzburg in September 1777 in search of the position his father was sure would bring him fame. Mozart did not return to Salzburg until January 1779, …

Joseph Haydn’s remarkable Opus 20 quartets are rightfully regarded as landmarks in the history of the string quartet development. Throughout these six contrasting quartets the composer employs compositional techniques that were to shape and define the …