Chamber music by its very nature is a more intimate form of music. While in modern times it is played in concert halls, it was originall...

Joseph Haydn began his career as a composer just as the Baroque era of music was winding down. He was one of the composers of the time tha...

The name Charles Alkan conjures up piano pieces of staggering difficulty,  immense length and  musical depth. And rightly so, with his Con...

Living a complicated lifestyle evidently was a part of Litolff's personality. He traveled Europe on concert tours, got married and di...

Ignaz Moscheles was a virtuoso pianist and composer that was good friends with Beethoven, mentor and friend to Mendelssohn and close asso...

Was Charles Alkan really a mystery as the pianist Ronald Smith (a champion of Alkan's works) called him in the title to his biography ...

Paderewski wanted to be known as a composer as much as a piano virtuoso, perhaps even more so.  He had scant little time to compose after ...