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.
Meet Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
My life was not long—I left the world at thirty-eight—but I hope that in those years I was able to contribute something true, something that still sings. If my music carries a touch of grace, or awakens in you the beauty I felt when writing it, then my task is complete.
Meet Johannes Brahms
I was born in Hamburg in 1833, the son of a modest musician. My earliest days were filled with the sounds of the docks, of sailors’ songs, and of my father’s double bass. From these beginnings, I discovered that music was not merely entertainment — it was a language, capable of speaking directly to the soul.
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