Musikalien (1.755 Artikel)

Admired throughout much of his short life by an influential group of composers including Rimsky-Korsakov, Asaf'yev and Rakhmaninov the works of Kalinnikov embody the Golden Age of Russian music wit...

Throughout his compositional career, Sigismond Thalberg wrote many pieces based upon the themes of other composers, including Bellini, Mozart and Rossini. In 'Erinnerungen an Beethoven', he explore...

Stephen Heller wrote many works for piano during his compositional life. Erlkönig is a work based upon Schubert's lied known by the names of 'Die Erikonig' and Roi Des Aufnes', which is, in turn, b...

While Wagner is a key figure in the world of opera, this 'Fantasie in fis moll' for solo piano offers a rare chance to glimpse into his compositional development. Written at 18, this was the first ...

The mazurka started life in the17C as a Polish dance of rustic regional origins and is said to have borrowed its distinctive accent on the weak beat of a measure from the Polish language itself. Wh...

Although remembered chiefly as the father of modern piano technique established through his pioneering studies and published methods, Czerny began studying the past masters from a very young age. T...

The Charmes de Hambourg takes the form of a brilliant Rondo prefaced by a lyrical introduction in the Viennese style. Composed before Heller turned sixteen it was part of the programme he took on t...

Modelled with a clear deference to the Song without Words form of Mendelssohn, Loreley is based loosely on the 1801 poem by Clemens Brentano, 'Zu Bacharach am Rheine' in which the tragic heroine Lo...

A piano virtuoso with astonishing technical ability, Alkan was nevertheless, a retiring figure who rarely performed outside of his native city and who rarely wrote for anything other than the piano...

These six traditional zither tunes were arranged for easy piano by Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The zither was an instrument the Duke was responsible for elevating to the status of National Instrume...

Kraus's musical style is highly original, with a distinctive sense of lyrical melody and bold harmonies which often anticipate the music of the next century. His overture to 'Dido and Aeneas' is a ...

In the years between 1809 and 1813 Ferdinand Ries had an almost unbroken schedule of concerts and touring and this piece, a polonaise in the brilliant style was one of the works to emerge from this...

Celebrated for a prodigious output as much as for the dramatic range of his works , Raff was for many years the protege of Liszt and the influence on Raffs technique is unmistakable. The Reminiscen...

Siegfried Langgaard was a Danish pianist, composer and philosopher of music. His highly pianistic style and complex harmonic ianguage can be clearly seen within this 'Romantische Phantasie', inspir...

Pierné style freely adapts the fashions of his time to incorporate all the latest trends for popular effect. Charming, light, humourous and refined, his luminous compositions leave a tune in the ea...