Wilhelm Lehr

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

The African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed his opera Treemonisha in 1910 but it was not performed in its entirety until 1970, when the piano score was rediscovered. The music of Treem...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson (1908-1986) was a notable Swedish composer of the 20th century. The gentle piece En Vintersaga is work in four movements in a pastoral mood and was written during an early pha...

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (1786-1832) was a German-born Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. During his lifetime, Kuhlau was known primarily as a concert pianist and compose...

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (1786-1832) was a German-born Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. During his lifetime, Kuhlau was known primarily as a concert pianist and compose...

Antonín Dvorák 'Slawischen Tänze' bestehen aus 16 Orchesterstücken, die er in zwei Folgen 1878 und 1886 als Opus 46 und 72 veröffentlichte. Der unter diesen wohl bekannteste, achte Tanz ist ein 'Furia...

Antonín Dvorák 'Slawischen Tänze' bestehen aus 16 Orchesterstücken, die er in zwei Folgen 1878 und 1886 als Opus 46 und 72 veröffentlichte. Der unter diesen wohl bekannteste, achte Tanz ist ein 'Furia...

Die Annahme, dass Busoni mit seiner ausgedehnten Fuge über den 'lieben Augustin' eine geheime Liebeserklärung an die schlichte Tanzweise zu Papier gebracht hat, dürfte wohl gesichert sein.

Album for the Young is a debut piano collection by composer Irina Nenartovich (USA) who studied composition with Sergey Slonimsky at the St Petersburg State Conservatory. Nenartovich's instantly appea...