Richard Wagner

Arrangements for the piano, transcriptions and opera paraphrases take up a large part in Franz Liszt's complete œuvre. He even arranged scenes from the music dramas of Richard Wagner. The transcriptio...

In the last scene of Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', Wotan, the father of the gods, punishes his daughter Brünnhilde for her disobedience. He wants to curse her to a deep sleep for her to be helplessly...

Carl Tausig erhielt die erste Musikausbildung bei seinem Vater, dem Komponisten und Thalberg-Schüler Aloys Tausig. Mit 14 Jahren ging er nach Weimar, um Unterricht bei Franz Liszt zu nehmen, von dem e...

Edwin Lemare (*1865), one of the most famous British organists around 1900, composed 180 pieces for the organ and 60 further works, while the number of his organ transcriptions comes to 270. Preferrin...