Composers Archive

Singer Magdalena Kozena is the wife of conductor Sir Simon Rattle. As such, she has many opportunities to venture into diverse musical journies. Now she undertakes an unusual journey of her own: The world-famous mezzo-soprano …

Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860. Life during his early years included his experiencing the early death of several of his siblings. And he determined that he needed to express his own feelings …

Between the years 1782 and 1785 Wolfgang Mozart composed six quartets that were dedicated to Joseph Haydn. And famously, Haydn made this famous comment to Mozart’s father: “I have to tell you before God and …

Korngold’s Violin Concerto was completed in 1945. This is a beautiful, late Romantic work that harks back clearly to Korngold’s earlier compositional style, when he was a younger man living in Vienna. But had he …

Khatia Buniatishvili has a very active season performing all over the world, and on this post we have for you her performance of Edvard Grieg’s Concerto in A- Minor. Grieg composed this in 1868, and here …