Piano | Gerry Roberts

The Elf King

Posted on March 29, 2026 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Beethoven’s Big Day

Posted on December 5, 2025 Leave a Comment

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 […]

The Miller and the Brook

Posted on March 1, 2025 Leave a Comment

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 […]