Brahms’ Music in Memory of His Mother
The critics in Vienna were quick to comment that Johannes Brahms did not include the word “Jesus” in his Requiem. Brahms simply responded that as the composer of this music he decided what words and …
Composers Archive
Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten play Mozart!!
It is amazing how two people from different cultures can come together with little familiarity with one another’s language. The solution is, of course, their common love of music. It turned out that Richter knew …
Sibelius’ Symphony #2
The second symphony by Jean Sibelius is the most popular and most frequently recorded of Sibelius’ symphonies. It is more skilfully orchestrated than the first symphony. The ideas of form are more mature and the …
Introducing Pianist Dmitry Shishkin
Dmitry Shishkin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1992. At the young age of a year and a half, he played the first pieces of music, and when he was three years old, Dmitriy put …
Pianist Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer (born May 16, 1930, Vienna, Austria—died Jan. 27, 2000, Weissenbach, Austria). He was noted for his renditions of the classical repertoire (including Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and …