Composers Archive

Schumann’s Märchenbilder, (Fairytale Pictures) is a relatively late work, composed while Schumann was in residence at Düsseldorf as Director of Music. This masterwork shows the composer in the idiom he knew best: a series of …

I love all five of Beethoven’s Concerti for Piano and orchestra. And… I actually have a favorite. It is the concerto #4. Just listen to the very first chord: Thousands of piano students sit in …

Many aspects emerge for me from the music of Schubert: His tragic short life (Listen to the opening introduction to this symphony), and the marvelous interplay he frequently composed between the strings and the wind …

Sergei Prokofiev composed the original version of the Overture on Hebrew Themes during his visit in New York in 1920. He composed it for a chamber group that specialized in Klezmer and other Jewish music. …

Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan classical pianist who is particularly known for adding improvisations to her performances. Gabriela Montero was born on May 10, 1970 in Caracas Venezuela; Montero gave her first public piano recital …