Composers Archive

Claude Debussy’s “Reflets dans l’eau” (“Reflections in the Water”) opens with a reaching three-note motif (consisting of A♭, F, and E♭), which is explored in the rest of the movement Impressions of light reflecting off …

The Mozart Trio KV 498 was first performed shortly after its completion by Franziska von Jacquin, Anton Stadler, and Mozart himself at one of the Wednesday soirees at the Jacquin home described by Caroline Pichler. …

The Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826, begins with a Sinfonia in the form and style of a French overture. A noble, dotted-note introduction leads to a long cantilena, which in turn vaults …

Franz Schubert’s song “Die Forelle” was composed about 1817 (with later revisions), with words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. It is among the most familiar of Schubert’s approximately 600 songs, and it is best known …

The rustling and shimmering of the piano part which opens Richard Strauss’ song “Ständchen” is one of those startling inventions by this composer that simply hooks the listener from the first note! The song tells …