Composers Archive

In 1794, Beethoven met a precocious violinist, Franz Clement, who was only thirteen at that time. Shortly thereafter, he wrote to the teenager, “Continue along the road on which you have already made such a …

Born in 1990 in Vittorio Veneto, Chiara Opalio is the first prize winner of the prestigious International Prize “Rahn Wettbewerb” in Zürich, and the Solistenwettbewerb in Zofingen. More recently she is prize winner at the …

The Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103, is Franz Schubert’s most-often performed piano duet and is considered one of the great masterpieces of ensemble piano repertoire. Schubert completed the Fantasie in 1828, just a short …

Beethoven understood how different his new sonata #9 was from any that had come before, including his own eight. His title page describes it as a “Sonata for the pianoforte and violin obbligato, written in …

Many things have surprised me about German composer Richard Strauss over the years: He spent the entire WWII years in Germany until he died in 1945 at his home in Garmisch Partenkirchen. During the American …