Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...
Immediately after finishing his second Violin Sonata op. 108, Fauré started work on a sonata for cello and piano in early 1917, thus realising a long-conceived plan. In their predisposition and attitu...
In contrast to the first cello sonata (HN1357) composed four years earlier, this substantially more catchy and playful second sonata enjoyed great success with audiences and critics right from the sta...
The idea for this, the penultimate work in Fauré's oeuvre, came in 1922 from his publisher Jacques Durand, who had published Ravel's famous Piano Trio just a few years earlier. Fauré initially did not...
Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in...
Fingering Piano: Pascal Rogé Fingering Violin: Ernst Schliephake Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Faure...
Max Bruch, geboren am 6. Januar 1838 in Köln und gestorben am 2. Oktober 1920 in Berlin, zählt zu jenen Komponisten der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, die, heute oftmals im Schatten prominentere...
Von den auf den Wiener Kongress 1815 folgenden grundlegenden Veränderungen in der Ordnung Europas waren auch die Musikkultur und die Strukturen des Musiklebens im Rheinland betroffen. Welche Ausformun...
