MUSICIANS
Various posts written about musicians and musical events.
A new work by W A Mozart
It’s always exciting when a previously undiscovered work emerges, especially when composed by a world-famous master composer. Last Friday the BBC reported on a newly uncovered composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which had been ‘found in a notebook in an attic’ by music historian Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider, from the institute for Tyrolean music research at Innsbruck…
An Interview with Vladimir Horowitz
This interview with Russian virtuoso pianist, Vladimir Horowitz (1903 -1989) was filmed in 1977. It highlights the pianist’s ebullient personality and gives a fascinating insight into his life. Horowitz was considered to be one of the worlds greatest interpreters of the Romantic repertoire. His first recording of Liszt’s B minor Sonata in 1932 has often…
British Female Pianists and Pedagogues
In honour of International Women’s Day, which we celebrated a couple of weeks ago, I’m going to trace the emergence of female pianists and pedagogues throughout the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. I’ve always been fascinated by gender topics such as this, particularly the gradual change from amateur to professional status of piano teachers. An abundance…
Liza Lehmann
For quite some time I’ve been interested in female pianists and composers. Some say, here in the Twenty-first century, that we finally have equality although it seems to me that classical music has long been a male-dominated profession. Women composers are particularly thin on the ground. There are more around today but during the Nineteenth…