Peter Jost

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Durante su juventud, Richard Strauss compuso un gran número de obras para piano solo, entre ellas numerosas sonatas. Sin embargo, sólo la Sonata en si menor le pareció lo bastante importante como para...

El primer movimiento de la Sonatina para piano de Maurice Ravel fue escrito probablemente en 1903. En cualquier caso, el compositor la interpretó el 8 de enero de 1904 en una velada celebrada en el sa...

Whereas numerous French composers of the time tried to breathe new life into the larger forms of instrumental music, Chabrier concentrated on the smaller dance and character forms. The 'Bourrée fantas...

In summer 1881 Franz Liszt composed a work that he called 'Valse oubliée' (Forgotten waltz) in a letter to his publisher. The work is reminiscent of the appealing piano waltzes that the composer used...

Los sonidos del agua -fuentes, cascadas y arroyos- fueron un tema popular en el impresionismo musical. Liszt ya lo había explorado en sus "Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este", y también fue un tema que ins...

Miroirs - Ravel dedicó cada una de estas cinco piezas para piano a un miembro del círculo artístico parisino Les Apaches. Ravel también pertenecía a este círculo de poetas, pintores y músicos, y estre...

Una colección de poemas en prosa del romántico francés Aloysius Bertrand inspiró a Ravel su ciclo para piano "Gaspard de la nuit". A diferencia de obras anteriores, Ravel no se limita a crear una repr...

The unsteady life of the Belgian Vieuxtemps anticipated the European idea like hardly any other in the 19th century. The best example is the Élégie composed in 1848: it was written in St. Petersburg,...

Vieuxtemps is nowadays considered to be the foremost exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school. Following a concert by the 14-year old 'wunderkind' in 1834, none other than Robert Schumann said: 'W...

Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published i...

The middle work in the three late chamber music sonatas was composed in spring 1915, directly after the cello sonata (HN 633). The innovative combination of sounds - a wind instrument, a stringed inst...

The model for this composition was Beethoven's Septet op. 20, whose Divertimento character and six-part layout were adopted by Schubert, although he merely expanded the instrumentation by adding a sec...

En junio de 1905, Ravel declara a un amigo poco antes de emprender unas largas vacaciones: "He estado muy ocupado con una pieza para arpa encargada por la compañía Érard. Pude terminarla gracias a och...

Como en todas sus obras de cámara de madurez, Ravel también se revela como un innovador de las formas y técnicas tradicionales en su trío para piano, compuesto en 1914. Así, el movimiento "Passacaglia...

Created in 1851, 'Ride of the Valkyries' is the prelude to the third act of the music drama 'The Valkyrie'. The purely instrumental version soon found its way onto the concert stages and turned out to...

Created in 1851, 'Ride of the Valkyries' is the prelude to the third act of the music drama 'The Valkyrie'. The purely instrumental version soon found its way onto the concert stages and turned out to...

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Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...