Michael Korstick

During a concert tour through California in early 1920, Prokofiev composed five songs with piano accompaniment and textless voice parts, which appeared in print as Five Songs without Words op. 35 and...

After the publication of his Bagatelles op. 33 in 1803, Beethoven returned to this genre again only twenty years later. The stimulus came from outside, twice:: on the one hand, he received a request i...

In contrast to the Bagatelles op. 119, the Bagatelles op. 126, composed in 1824, were planned as a cycle from the outset. What these new bagatelles have in common are a basic tripartite form and the h...