Composers Archive

Born in Chambéry, France in 1981, Gautier Capuçon began cello studies in his native city at age five. At the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris he studied cello with Annie Cochet-Zakine and piano with Christophe Egiziano, …

Many Schubert’s greatest works belong to his last year, which saw the creation of the “Great” C major Symphony, the String Quintet, D. 956, the piano trios D. 929 and D. 898, the Mass in …

Not published until 1851, this work of Schubert’s early maturity fully deserves the designation “duo” appended by the publisher; unlike Schubert’s earlier works for violin and piano, this sonata makes the keyboard a full partner …

Maurice Ravel composed the Tombeau de Couperin in 1917. Ravel described it as an homage “directed less in fact to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century.” Disregarding the philosopher (and would-be …

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on the 18th of April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at …