Liszt's "Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata" draws its title and inspiration from verses by Victor Hugo.
Compositional Technique
Stravinsky's piano transcription of "Petrushka" was intentionally made to be an "essentially pianistic piece," not an imitation of the orchestral sonorities.
Compositional Technique
Liszt's "Fantasia quasi Sonata" uses the tritone interval (A-E flat), known as "diabolus in musica," in its opening bars to evoke a sense of Hell.
Composer Biography
Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt and Thalberg, holds a central place in the transmission of pianistic tradition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Debussy, while initially having a soft spot for Schumann, later sought an antidote to the 'symphonic piano' of the German School in the harpsichordists of the French Baroque.
Composer Biography
Brahms, despite telling his publisher in 1890 that his String Quintet No. 2 would be his last work, was inspired to compose more by clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.
Composition History
Czerny's Variations Op.33, though rarely heard in concert, gained posterity thanks to a celebrated recording by Vladimir Horowitz in 1944.
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