Reinecke was a versatile artist in the broadest sense that combined his talents as pianist, composer, and teacher with those of painter and poet. His Ten...

The ability of music to tell stories is exemplified in Reineckes Märchengestalten, where the worlds of fantasy and fairytale are evoked from the title itself. Combining...

This work for harpsichord is taken from an opera Reichardt wrote in collaboration with J. G. Naumann following the death of Frederick the Great, Reichardts controlling...

Reichardts fortunes rose and fell all within his own lifetime but after a difficult early education he was commonly accepted as gifted composer with a talent...

German composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt spent many years travelling as a youth and was an accomplished keyboard player. The Cembalo Concerto in the Old Style, is...

Although Frederick the Great was blessed with more humanitarian than religious concerns this funeral song composed on the occasion of his death, offers a spiritual epistle...

Masterpieces of the miniature, this set of six Autumn Leaves from Vladimir Rebikov are infused with the moods of yearning and pathos which were so popular...

Rebikovs music was the subject of controversy among his contemporaries and many of his groundbreaking ideas on exotic tonal reforms were coupled with a dramatic intensity...

Valse Melancolique was composed in 1846, the year after he went to work for Frank Liszt and the beginning of a period which was to leave...

Raff wrote this picturesque study in reminiscence of the Giessbach falls in Switzerland. A prodigious talent who for many years worked for Franz Liszt as a...