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Um die Jahreswende 1872/73 machte sich Peter I. Tschaikowsky an die Komposition eines Zyklus von '6 Romanzen' für Gesang und Klavier opus 16, startete dabei mit dem einem Wiegenlied nach einem Text au...

Alongside Chambonnières and Rameau, François Couperin was a leading French composer and harpsichordist of his time. 'Pièces de clavecin' is his best known composition, consisting of 27 suites called '...

It is absolutely without reason that Stephen Heller lives in the shadows both in terms of concert life and piano lessons - even though the pianist, who was born in Budapest in 1813 and died in Paris i...

It is absolutely without reason that Stephen Heller lives in the shadows both in terms of concert life and piano lessons even though the pianist, who was born in Budapest in 1813 and died in Paris in...

This character piece is still firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition of descriptive musical imagery. An early work, its formal structure is characterised by onglike thematic phrases, softly flowing m...

Inspired by Frédéric Chopin, George Gershwin (1898-1937) worked on a collection of 24 preludes bearing the title 'The Melting Pot'. Three of the preludes were performed for the first time at the Roose...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

In the 19th century, the Christmas celebrations increasingly moved from the church to the family home. The delicately woven Christmas Sonatina by Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) testifies to that. Motifs fr...