Tabea Zimmermann

Published in early 1806, Kreutzer’s "40 Études ou Caprices" for violin – there are 42 today – are the product of his years-long employment at the Conservatoire de Paris and are the most comprehensive...

Only few etude works were originally conceived for the viola – that of Leipzig composer Friedrich Hermann is one of them. In 1881 the pupil of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote six virtuoso etudes in...

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated 'd. 14 Febr. 1824'. Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the...

The Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg (* 1950) is renowned not only in his own country for his many commissioned compositions and performances in Europe and America. His works, most of which are wr...

Joseph Joachim is considered one of the most important violinists of the second half of the nineteenth century. By contrast, his indeed small but at the time highly regarded compositional work is hard...

The Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg (* 1950) is renowned not only in his own country for his many commissioned compositions and performances in Europe and America. His works, most of which are wr...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) is wrongly remembered, first and foremost, as Mozart's pupil. In his day he was one of the most respected pianists and was also a composer with quite some influence o...

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...

We owe a debt of gratitude to the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld for making the elderly Brahms so interested in his instrument. In the 1890s the composer wrote the Trio op. 114, the Quintet op. 115 and...