Composers Archive

Of the 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven, the #31 is my favorite, and today you have an opportunity to listen to this music again. Composed in 1821, the Opus 110 shares the same humanity and …

The piano soloist enters the composition with a waltz-like tune that will lead both to recollections of the opening and to meditation. Now a theme in the major mode offers respite in a chorale-like passage …

In the Quintet for Piano and Winds, KV452, Mozart created his melodic lines in short phrases, facilitating their playing by the wind instruments, and then assigned the phrases to continuously changing instrumental combinations to vary …

Sibelius’s D-minor Violin Concerto towers as an icy summit in the instrument’s literature. But Sibelius and the violin are connected in other ways, too. He aspired to become a violin virtuoso himself but unfortunately fixed …

In the year 1830, what appeared in print as Beethoven’s quartet Op. 131 is an unprecedentedly original and ambitious work: This composition is the zenith of Beethoven’s late quartets, which in themselves hold a privileged …