Meet Alessandro Marcello – His Life and Work
My music sought grace rather than grandeur, clarity rather than excess. I believed that beauty lies in restraint—that a single melodic line, sincerely drawn, can speak more deeply than the most elaborate display.
Meet Isaac Albéniz – His Life and Work
I was a child prodigy — so restless that by the age of ten I had already run away more than once to give concerts across Spain and beyond. Music was adventure; every town, every theater, every note a new horizon.
Meet Alexander Borodin – His Life and Work
https://youtu.be/7Yi3faB6Hm4?si=wfLwVMId4EfoJ4QY Alexander Borodin (1833–1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and accomplished chemist. A member of The Five, a group of nationalist composers, Borodin is best known for his opera Prince Igor, the symphonic poem In the...
Classical Archives Interviews Pianist Katie Mahan about Her New CD Heaven & Hell
Editor-in-Chief Barry Lenson interviews the American pianist Katie Mahan about her new album Heaven & Hell – Mozart Beethoven, just released on the Steinway label.
Meet Robert Schumann
I am Robert Schumann, born in 1810 in the Saxon town of Zwickau. From the start I lived between two tempers—impetuous Florestan and inward Eusebius—and I let them both speak at the piano. I once dreamed of life as a virtuoso, but an injury to my hand turned me instead toward composing and writing. In that detour, I found my true voice.
Meet Frédéric François Chopin
Paris became my adopted city — a place alive with artists and poets. There, I found friendship, admiration, and an audience who listened not to fireworks of sound, but to whispers of poetry on the keys.
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