Composers Archive

Pianist Ivan Ilić came across these transcriptions for piano through the most unlikely sequence of events: Carl David Stegmann (1751 1826) was a tenor, keyboard player, conductor, and composer, who worked mostly in the field …

Franz Schubert did at age 31; he left us more than 600 Lieder (songs), several symphonies, as well as many works of chamber music, such as piano trios, String Quartets, Quintets, and Octets. Have a …

That Vienna is one of the capitals (if not THE capital) of music is undisputed. With this recording, Elena Gaponenko has dedicated an entire album to the city on the Danube and the composers who …

Composer Antonín Dvořák was born on September 8, 1841 in what is now the Czech Republic. He composed symphonies, chamber music and at least one opera (Rusalka). Dvorak spent some time in the US as …

My 14 year-old Grandson called me just now, and he told me that he is taking part in learning and performing the Trio #2 in E-Minor by Dmitry Shostakovich. For me this was a WOW …