Peter Jost

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

The first movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonatine for piano was probably written in 1903. At any rate the composer played it on 8 January 1904 at a soirée held at the salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceau...

Whereas numerous French composers of the time tried to breathe new life into the larger forms of instrumental music, Chabrier concentrated on the smaller dance and character forms. The 'Bourrée fantas...

In summer 1881 Franz Liszt composed a work that he called 'Valse oubliée' (Forgotten waltz) in a letter to his publisher. The work is reminiscent of the appealing piano waltzes that the composer used...

The sounds made by water - those of fountains, waterfalls and streams - were a popular subject in musical impressionism. Liszt had already explored this in his 'Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este', and it...

Miroirs' - Ravel dedicated each of these five piano pieces to a member of the Parisian artistic circle 'Les Apaches'. Ravel also belonged to this circle of poets, painters and musicians, giving first...

A collection of prose poems by the French Romantic Aloysius Bertrand inspired Ravel to write his piano cycle 'Gaspard de la nuit'. Unlike earlier works he does not merely create an atmospheric depicti...

The unsteady life of the Belgian Vieuxtemps anticipated the European idea like hardly any other in the 19th century. The best example is the Élégie composed in 1848: it was written in St. Petersburg,...

Vieuxtemps is nowadays considered to be the foremost exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school. Following a concert by the 14-year old 'wunderkind' in 1834, none other than Robert Schumann said: 'W...

Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published i...

The middle work in the three late chamber music sonatas was composed in spring 1915, directly after the cello sonata (HN 633). The innovative combination of sounds - a wind instrument, a stringed inst...

The model for this composition was Beethoven's Septet op. 20, whose Divertimento character and six-part layout were adopted by Schubert, although he merely expanded the instrumentation by adding a sec...

In June 1905, Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: 'I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fash...

As with all of his mature chamber music works Ravel also emerges as an innovator of traditional forms and techniques in his piano trio, composed in 1914. Thus the 'Passacaglia' movement corresponds to...

Created in 1851, 'Ride of the Valkyries' is the prelude to the third act of the music drama 'The Valkyrie'. The purely instrumental version soon found its way onto the concert stages and turned out to...

Created in 1851, 'Ride of the Valkyries' is the prelude to the third act of the music drama 'The Valkyrie'. The purely instrumental version soon found its way onto the concert stages and turned out to...

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