Son of Russian composer and pianist Alexander Skriabin, Julian drowned in the Dnieper River aged just eleven years old but he had already shown great promise...

A composer with a vast and varied catalogue of works Raff is celebrated as much for his prodigious originality as for his technical accomplishments. A former...

The Romanze of 1847 was composed at a pivotal moment in Raffs career when the next serious phase of his musical career was being envisaged. Living...

The Mazurka started life in the17C as a Polish dance of rustic regional origins and is said to have borrowed its distinctive accent on the weak...

The Deux Elegies were composed in 1868 during a period of great stability in Raffs life. After years spent under apprenticeship to his mentor and friend,...

Pierné style freely adapts the fashions of his time to incorporate all the latest trends for popular effect. Charming, light, humourous and refined, his luminous compositions...

Conceived at around the time of his Piano Concerto opus 12, the Étude de Concert opus 13 is both an antecedent for and a working out...

Bohemian violinist and composer Franz Neubauer left his native country to pursue a musical career performing and teaching. On his travels he stopped at various monasteries...

Fleeing conscription into Napoleons army Kuhlau landed in Copenhagen with a stack of manuscripts under his arm. Riding on the popularity of his piano concerto this...

Remembered as the dedicatee of Beethovens Violin Sonata op. 47, Kreutzer was a leading exponent of the French violin school and composed an influential set of...