Composers Archive

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in B-flat major, published as No. 2, was in fact his first in order of composition. He may have started the Concerto as early as 1793, in Bonn, and continued it later …

Peter Tchaikovsky composed his Violin Concerto in 1878 after some disastrous personal issues. Soon after, a friend visited with the composer and brought with him the score for Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol. The next day they …

British musician Benjamin Britten composed his Piano Concerto in 1938, and then revised it in 1945. Britten’s first work for piano and orchestra was written for himself to play at a Promenade Concert. In 1945 …

The Arpeggione Sonata was written in 1824, soon after Schubert’s Schöne Müllerin song cycle and shortly before the Great C major Symphony of 1825-28 and the C major String Quintet of 1827, perhaps his finest instrumental …

I have previously given you the opportunity to listen to pianist Yeol Eum Son; but you might have missed connecting with MCN on that day. So… I want to tell you about her again, and …