Composers Archive

I have listened to this music many many times. And I am very unhappy when I do not hear it played in an adequately Legato manner.  Often the short note in the melody is chopped …

For me, there is no better answer about how to spend my time while I am doing “Shelter in Place” than to listen to the genius of Mozart. Today I want to tell you about …

Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas during the 57 years of his lifetime. These works are often categorized as emerging from his so-called “early”, “middle”, or “late” periods. Recently I have been studying the last three …

Mozart entered this concerto in his catalog of all his compositions on December 16, 1785, and he played the solo part at the first performance on December 23 in Vienna. The orchestra consists of flute, …

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concert was his last major work for orchestra, and his most personal. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic peacefulness, it is dominated by disillusionment, by a sense of suffering that at times …