A work by French composer Jules Massenet, one of the most famous examples of the musical genre of elegy. This composition was originally written as a piano piece and included in Massenet’s 1866 cycle “Genre Pieces” (Op. 10) as number 5. Then, while working on the music for Leconte de Lisle’s drama Les Erinyes (staged […]
The cycle of piano pieces “Poetic Pictures” (“Poetiske Tonebilde” in Norwegian) was composed by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1863. This collection consists of six short pieces, each of which conveys a particular poetic mood or image inspired by nature, poetry and the author’s personal experiences. Each piece is an independent miniature work with […]
The cycle of piano pieces “Poetic Pictures” (“Poetiske Tonebilde” in Norwegian) was composed by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1863. This collection consists of six short pieces, each of which conveys a particular poetic mood or image inspired by nature, poetry and the author’s personal experiences. Each piece is an independent miniature work with […]
The cycle of piano pieces “Poetic Pictures” (“Poetiske Tonebilde” in Norwegian) was composed by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg in 1863. This collection consists of six short pieces, each of which conveys a particular poetic mood or image inspired by nature, poetry and the author’s personal experiences. Each piece is an independent miniature work with […]
Stefan Geller (1813-1888) was an outstanding Hungarian Romantic composer of Jewish origin, a talented pianist and teacher. He wrote his 25 melodic études for piano in 1844. They are intended for intermediate students and serve as an introduction to the revised edition of L’art de phraser, Op. 16. The set of 25 melodic études is […]
The career of Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian, followed in a general way the same route as that of Handel: Germany to Italy to England. Arriving in England in 1762, three years after Handel’s death, J. C. Bach established himself as a popular composer of operas and instrumental works in an […]
The fugue was composed by Russian composer Alexander Arensky as part of the collection “Six Children’s Pieces for Piano for Four Hands” in 1894. This composition is a prime example of his interest in Russian folk music and symmetrical fugal technique. Arensky used folk melodies to create a rich and expressive fugue, combining traditional Russian […]
“«In the summer of 1935, at the same time as «Romeo and Juliet», I was composing light pieces for children, in which my old love of sonatinity was awakened, reaching here, as it seemed to me, full childishness. By the fall I had a dozen of them, which then came out in a collection called […]
“The piece, with its broad Russian songfulness and soft coloring, reminds us once again of Prokofiev’s great lyrical gift and the soil of his melodism. The music of this charming piece is saturated with genuine humanity, purity and nobility of feeling. Subsequently, the author used it as the theme of love between Katerina and Danila […]
“Unlike a number of his other marches, Prokofiev in this case did not go down the path of grotesque or stylization. There is no element of puppetry here (as, for example, in Tchaikovsky’s “March of the Wooden Soldiers”), the piece quite realistically depicts children marching. The children’s “March”, Op. 65 was widely disseminated and became […]
“The play is close in style to Tarantella. It is written in the character of a quick sketch. One can imagine the children enthusiastically catching up with each other, the atmosphere of a merry, moving children’s game”.(V. Delson, “Prokofiev’s Piano Works and Pianism”)
“A piece in which the composer tries – and very successfully – to vividly describe the enormous impression that any bright phenomenon of nature makes on children. There are naturally sounding bold sonic «blots» (a chord-stain of two side-by-side seconds), and, precisely falling drops, slow rehearsals on one note, and simply a «Theme of Amazement» […]
