The contributors to this song are a man, well-known and admired throughout Germany, regarded even today as perhaps the most influential German writer of all time, and a humble eighteen-year-old Austrian composer, still a boy in many ways, poor, unknown outside a small circle of fellow music students and friends. Using a single human voice…
May 7, 1824. Beethoven wakes up, always at the same time. His head is heavy. It feels like red wine from yesterday evening is still swirling about inside him. He struggles out of bed, opens the window and looks out. Yes, the bells are swinging back and forth, yes, he cannot hear them. He remembers…
I once heard a piece of music that bowled me over. It was a song written over two hundred years ago. It featured a baritone voice and a piano. It was sung in German. It was called Der muller und der bach (the miller and the brook). I didn’t understand the words. I didn’t need…
Piano competition
The Sydney
Chopin in the morning
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