Claude Debussy affirmed that Mozart is 'the purest of all musicians' and 'music itself,' especially in his keyboard works.
Critical Reception
Some musicologists considered the 1990 discovery of the Fantasia and Sonata No. 14 manuscript to be the most important ever made in Mozart's keyboard output.
Composition History
Musicologist Alan Tyson provided proof that Mozart composed his Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat Major, K. 333, in Linz in 1783, not Vienna in 1785 as previously thought.
Performer Biography
Elena Bashkirova founded the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival in 1998 and serves as its artistic director.
Performer Biography
Elena Bashkirova, the pianist on this album, is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with her father, celebrated pianist and teacher Dmitri Bashkirov.
Performer Biography
Elena Bashkirova received the Ruhr Piano Festival Prize and an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2018.
Composition History
In 1990, the original manuscript of Mozart's Fantasia and Sonata No. 14 in C Minor was discovered in a safe by a Boston librarian.
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