Composers Archive

Born in San Francisco, Leon Fleisher began playing piano at the age of four, and began studying with Artur Schnabel at age nine. His students include André Watts, Yefim Bronfman, Hélène Grimaud, Louis Lortie, Jonathan …

Mozart composed the String Duo K. 423 during a visit to Salzburg from July to October 1783. According to historical notes, they were written to do his friend Michael Haydn a personal favor. Haydn had …

A lasting and productive experience of Antonin Dvorak’s American stay was his visit in the summer of 1893 to the Bohemian colony of Spillville, Iowa. It was there that Dvorak wrote much of his “New …

This concerto for Oboe was composed during the 1700’s; and  a number of theories exist that provide conflicting background to its origin. The concertos Bach wrote for one or more harpsichords and string instruments during …

Composed in just over a month in November 1850, Schumann’s Third Symphony dates from the beginning of his tenure as municipal music director in Düsseldorf, a town situated on the famously scenic Rhine River. The …