The natural gifts of any musician need to be formed around a solid technique. The very few who are extremely gifted in composition also nee...

Felix Mendelssohn's natural musical abilities were recognized early.  He began piano lessons with his mother at age six, and learned so ...

Dmitri Shostakovich was refining his technique and losing some of his more radical avant garde style before the official denouncement of 193...

Liszt was a tireless champion of Beethoven and his music. He was the first pianist to play the late piano sonatas, he gave a series of conc...

Beethoven approached the composition of his first symphony with caution, as the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn were still in the ears of mus...

Over his long life Joseph Haydn composed over 1,000 works in all genres. One of the smallest outputs in any genre was the solo concerto, of ...

The concertos for violin by Antonio Vivaldi (some 230 of the over 500 are for solo violin) contain some of the most recognizable and popular...