It is probably the best known and most played march in the world: the Army March II dedicated to Field Marshal Josef...
Music
Ravel’s Bolero – a classic earworm
Maurice Ravel composed his Bolero in 1928 for the dancer Ida Rubinstein. Throughout his life, he was to have a very...
Daniel Dorff and his many, great works for flute
Daniel Dorff is an American composer. He was born in 1956 in New Rochelle/New York and studied at Cornell University...
La Boheme
Paris, mid 19th century. It's Christmas, here too, in the Latin Quarter, where four destitute students lead a...
History of the piano
"On the first day of creation, God made the violin. And it has remained practically unchanged ever since." (Louis...
Harpist
Who never ate his bread with tears, Who never seen the sorrowful nights Weeping sat on his bed, He doesn't know you,...
The Operetta
At the end of the 19th century Vienna was undisputedly the music capital of Europe. Let the other countries quietly...
Devil´s Trill Sonata
The young Giuseppe Tartini studied the humanities, rhetoric and music, but he may not have taken his studies too...
Piano Concerto No. 2
Born in 1873 in Novgorod, S. Rachmaninov is considered one of the most important composers of the late Romantic era....
Radetzky March
It is probably the best known and most frequently played march in the world: the Army March II dedicated to Field...
Goldberg Variations, J. S. Bach
Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, Russian envoy at the court of Dresden, suffered from depression and insomnia throughout...
Der Freischütz by C. M. Weber
A hunter boy, who sells his soul to the devil to get into the possession of magic balls. A beautiful hunter's...