Christopher Hogwood

Haydn's first set of Lieder, adapted for the English market by William Shield, who was to become his close friend, were an instant commercial success, with the most popular of them re-issued separatel...

Muzio Clementi, who was rather more magnanimous in his praise of Mozart than Mozart was of him - 'Until then I had never heard anyone perform with such grace and elegance' - towards the end of his lif...

From the start, the size and nature of the scoring of Mozart's Serenade for 12 Winds and Contrabass K. 361 (conventionally called either Serenade for 13 Winds or Gran Partita) and the unusual length o...

Includes two 'mystery' pieces - the last discovery this Mozart year! In the short period between Mozart's death and the end of the 18th century, it was quickly discovered that he had not left enough s...

These effective and memorable variations were published more than 14 times as the work of Mozart, and never once under their true name. Mozart himself is said to have used them as favourite teaching m...

Anton Eberl, nine years younger than Mozart, also began life as a prodigy, and became a friend of Mozart and probably also a pupil; his compositions show such an acquaintance with Mozart's style that...

The Grande Sonate Charactéristique in F minor was published between Eberl's visits to Russia, and dedicated to Haydn, possibly in gratitude for his reported praise of Eberl's opera Die Königin der sch...

The Anhang of Köchel's catalogue is full of pieces that for more than a century after his death were thought to be his work; the Müller sonata, a very effective piece on both fortepiano and clavichord...

The music of John Dowland, the greatest English lute composer of that Golden Age, circulated widely in keyboard adaptations during his lifetime, suitable for performance on harpsichord, virginals or c...