Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...
In his letters Mozart described his early Piano Sonatas K. 270-284 as being 'difficult sonatas'. He was probably referring less to the refinements of performance and more to the demands of aesthetics...
The Sonata in D major is the last of the Six Sonatas K. 279-284 that Mozart had in his luggage when he set off for Paris in September 1777. He had already successfully performed this music in Munich,...
'I wish to do it to reflect the character of Mad:selle Rose,' Mozart replied when asked how he intended to set out the Andante of his Sonata in C major. In autumn 1777 he had got to know Rosina Cannab...
With the 'Introduction and Concert Allegro', composed in 1853 and dedicated to Johannes Brahms, we have completed our editions of Schumann's works for piano and orchestra. The famous Piano Concerto in...
In autumn 1830 Mendelssohn Bartholdy visited Venice whilst on a great European tour and was intoxicated by his impressions. He said of the local gondoliers: 'The gondoliers are now crying out to one a...
Between 1837-39 Liszt was travelling through Italy with Marie d'Agoult. As was the case with the first volume of the Années de Pèlerinage, Schweiz (1835/36) he once again recorded his travel impressio...
Schumann's turbulent love-affair with the barely eighteen-year-old Ernestine von Fricken, though strong enough to lead to a secret engagement, lasted only a few months. Nevertheless, it managed to giv...
The 'Davidsbund' - a group of artists who had joined forces in a revolutionary struggle against the backward structures in the artistic world, amongst whose members he counted both real and imaginary...
