by Barry Lenson | Oct 21, 2025 | Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann is most often remembered for the mental hardships he endured, which led him to live out his final years in a mental asylum. But much of his music expresses a heady, high joy that is hardly present in the work of any other composer. Much of that...
by Barry Lenson | Oct 14, 2025 | Frederic Chopin, Uncategorized
People tend to think of Chopin as the ultimate romantic – a composer of music that seems to speak of languid infatuation, heartbreak, and love. Yet there is much more to his music than that. He was, in fact, a composer of piano music that was ahead of its time...
by Barry Lenson | Oct 7, 2025 | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, possibly more than any other composer in history, seemed to arrive as a fully formed masterful composer when he was still in his teens. Before he was yet twenty, he had written his masterful string Octet, his ravishing incidental...
by Barry Lenson | Oct 1, 2025 | Johannes Brahms
The music of Johannes Brahms is often characterized as “warm.” But his works embody a wide range of emotions. Some are warm, yes, but others are troubling, some are reassuring, some are filled with yearning – but all have clearly been crafted by a...
by Barry Lenson | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
During his brief lifetime of 1797-1828, Franz Peter Schubert composed a remarkable body of works, including more than 600 songs (including the song cycles Winterreise, Die Schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang), nine symphonies, masterful chamber works (including the...
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