Composers Archive

For sheer joy of musical collaboration, enjoy this fine video record from 18 March 1970, when two great Soviet artists, David Oistrakh (1908-1974) and Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), played Beethoven and Brahms at Alice Tully Hall …

It is estimated that this fantasia was composed by Mozart in 1782, mainly because of its similarities to his Prelude (Fantasy) and Fugure in C major, K. 394, also written in 1782, as well as another …

The Prelude in g# minor op. 32 no. 12  – along with its fellow works in c# minor and g minor – can rightfully claim its rank among the most popular and frequently played préludes …

Mozart composed his second-to-last piano sonata in February 1789, but it did not become known until five years after his death when it was published as a sonata for piano and violin! This B-flat major …

Pianist Radu Lupu died a few weeks ago. He was a renowned interpreter of the Austro-German school of composers, which includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Johannes Brahms, among others. The …