Piezas clásicas para piano

Whose ears are not instantly filled with the dreamy flute solo when Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' is mentioned? Very few people know that before he wrote the orchestral score Debussy m...

The Scottish General Meredith Read called on Debussy in 1890 with a rather unusual request: Read acquainted the composer with a traditional bagpipe melody from his home country and asked him to write...

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894. Both pi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

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...

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...

Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...

The three popular Intermezzi op. 117 can be seen as the epitome of Brahms' late work for piano. Clara Schumann confessed: 'In these pieces I at last feel musical life stir once again in my soul'. Brah...

In his letters Mozart described his early Piano Sonatas K. 270-284 as being 'difficult sonatas'. He was probably referring less to the refinements of performance and more to the demands of aesthetics...

> Spirited miniature about the Spanish city Seville > Original piano version of the famous guitar flamenco > Single edition from HN783 When Albéniz' work Sevilla was performed in Madrid in 1886, it no...

Headstrong and eccentric, Satie consciously distanced himself from the Romantic traditions of the nineteenth century. His three miniatures for piano 'Gymnopédies' are the first testimony to his idea o...

Although Satie took the classical form as a model for his 'Sonatine', it is quintessentially an ironic work. The composer, who later in life liked to be seen walking through the streets wearing a stif...

In 1891, the year before his final exam at the music conservatory, Alexander Scriabin injured his right hand due to his ambitious practising. This seriously jeopardized his career as a pianist and the...

Scriabin's two movement Piano Sonata no. 2 in g sharp minor was composed over a relatively lengthy period of time. He first began work on it in 1892, but in the summer of 1896, after Scriabin had perf...

Fingering: Michael Schneidt Scriabin's ten complete piano sonatas offer a fascinating insight into the Russian composer's stylistic development. While his first works still fully reflect the late-roma...

'A great poem for the piano' was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra 'Le Poème de l'extase', and both works are based...

'A great poem for the piano' was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra 'Le Poème de l'extase', and both works are based...

Bach most likely composed his Toccatas in his early creative years, between 1707 and 1713; they can be seen as the products of Bach‘s own 'Sturm und Drang' period, and were not planned as an interconn...

With his 'Lyric Pieces', Edvard Grieg was writing a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901 he composed 66 short character pieces, published in ten books. Pieces such as 'Wedding Day at Trol...

Robert Schumann's famous Piano Concerto in a minor has always been part of the pianist's repertoire - yet the two later Concert Pieces for Piano and Orchestra op. 92 and op. 134 (Urtext edition of op....

On 23 August 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: 'I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise”. C...

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...