Accompanist to Frederick the Great and an eminent theorist, the second son of JS Bach was also a composer of rare inventiveness and beauty, as George Pratt explains Dr. Charles Burney, the distinguished music historian, undertook two tours of […]
Stephen Johnson gets to grips with classical music’s technical terms STACCATO IS ONE of those musical terms that’s entered common parlance. And on this occasion common parlance seems to have got it broadly right. When musicians and non-musicians use the word today […]
AMONG PIANO-PLAYING readers of this blog, quite a few of you will surely have tackled at least one of Debussy’s delightful, and fortunately not too difficult, Deux Arabesques. If you have, did you ever find yourself wondering what it is […]
El año 1810 unifica generacionalmente a una serie de autores nacidos en torno a él: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Félix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) y Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Este «trébol de cuatro hojas» simboliza el núcleo central del Romanticismo […]
Durante el siglo xviii se había ido conformando el «público» tal y como se entiende en el sentido moderno del término. El incremento en el interés por el arte, en una actitud imitativa de la nobleza, produjo durante todo el […]
