Was this skilfully composed work really written during a game of ninepins? The legend persists, although there is no reliable source. At all events th...More
Was this skilfully composed work really written during a game of ninep...
We not only owe three of Mozart’s horn concertos to his friendship with Ignaz Leutgeb- the solo part of this unusual chamber music work was also wri...More
We not only owe three of Mozart’s horn concertos to his friendship w...
Frantisek Jan Skroup (b. 1801 1862) is known to the public first and foremost as the composer of the Czech national anthem. He was also music director...More
Frantisek Jan Skroup (b. 1801 1862) is known to the public first and f...
Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced s...More
Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter...
It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber music for winds after 1800. Following the change to middle-class musical culture...More
It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber ...
When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and “Harmoniemusik” wind...More
When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in J...
The quintet begins with a muscular, motoric theme: a five-note motto that spawns related thematic variations and permutations across the entire work. ...More
The quintet begins with a muscular, motoric theme: a five-note motto t...
Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931) was born of aristocratic stock. His musical talent was recognized by his grandmother who raised him and saw that he recei...More
Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931) was born of aristocratic stock. His music...
Musicland hat sich seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1987 auf die Veröffentlichung von Musik für Streicherensembles spezialisiert. Ein Großteil seines ...More
Musicland hat sich seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1987 auf die Veröffe...
Responding to the desire of many string players for something "lively and modern" that would be "not too difficult yet effective," Hansdieter Meier de...More
Responding to the desire of many string players for something "lively ...
Towards the end of the 19th century the piano quartet was established as a separate sophisticated chamber music genre. It is therefore not surprising ...More
Towards the end of the 19th century the piano quartet was established ...
Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra ...More
Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' compos...
In 1887 Antonin Dvorak revised several of the works he had composed in the 1860s and 1870s, most of which he then published for the first time. In thi...More
In 1887 Antonin Dvorak revised several of the works he had composed in...
Béla Bartók composed his Piano Quintet while at grammar school in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava), and it still shows the influence of Brahms in...More
Béla Bartók composed his Piano Quintet while at grammar school in Po...
Weber's Quartet is a successful symbiosis of concert and chamber music elements which was to contribute significantly to the genre's change of functio...More
Weber's Quartet is a successful symbiosis of concert and chamber music...
