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The Prelude opens Volume 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a cycle of preludes and fugues for keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in 4/4 in sixteenth durations, it has two voices. The harmony of the prelude is generally similar to that of Bach’s time. Its tempo is not too fast. In its deviations, the […]

A musical work by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. It is part of the cycle Lyrical Pieces, written and published in 1901. The first complete recording of the Lyrical Pieces was made and released in the Soviet Union by Alexander Goldenweiser in the 1950s. The Kobold or Puck is a mythological creature from Germanic-Scandinavian mythology, often […]

This sonata is a relatively simple work, less refined than most other piano sonatas. Surprisingly, there are no dynamic indications in the autograph and first edition. It is considered to be the lighter of the two ‘light sonatas’ and also the simplest of all Beethoven’s piano sonatas The first movement involves two themes, starting with […]

Debussy, before other serious composers, began to use new dances and music-hall rhythms in his work. According to I. V. Nesteev: “This is one of the first attempts to embody in a serious genre the infectious element of Negro dance and everyday music of the pre-jazzˮ period. This number is also known for the deliberate […]

Sonata was written in 1792 in the city of Bonn and, together with the other two sonatas in the Op. 2 series, was dedicated to his teacher Joseph Haydn. Interestingly, Beethoven himself considered these works very successful as he dedicated them to his mentor, who was very critical of himself. These three sonatas were published […]