Composers Archive

The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918. Over the ensuing decades, the Orchestra quickly grew from a fine regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony orchestras in the world. Franz Welser-Möst has …

Mozart’s final two symphonies continue to be very popular with audiences. From the famous G-minor opening movement of the 40th symphony that cuts straight to the chase to the unprecedented complexity of the 41st symphony’s …

Franz Liszt adapted several of Schubert’s well-known songs to be played by solo piano. Included in these is the “Staendchen”, which I always think of as a Serenade from one lover to the other. Here …

Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik …

I really enjoy the violin performances of Janine Jansen! They are so filled with feeling and geat emotional expression… Ms. Jansen was born in 1978 in the Netherlands into a family of musicians – her father …