Composers Archive

Robert Schumann composed his Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 in 1839 when he was 29 years old. Schumann dedicated it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he also dedicated his Blumenstück …

Sketches for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 date from 1795, the year he completed the No. 2. Beethoven was in his mid-twenties when he finished both works, and with his emergent career in mind, he …

Mozart’s D Major quintet seems to create a narrative sequence over its movements. Two beautiful slow sections seem to frame the first movement, and the main body of the movement has a fairly straightforward, expository …

Mozart died in Vienna on December 5, 1791. Yes… of course he was a genius whose creativity impacted people for more than 200 years following his death. I dedicate this music today to the infants, …

Mozart completed his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, on March 24, 1786. It projects a reflective, personal, almost intimate quality. Much of the originality of this concerto lies in the sonority …