When in 1781 Mozart moved to Vienna, he wrote to his father that he had come to the best place in the world for his profession. When Beethoven arrived there ten years later, Vienna was still a...
Like Richard Strauss, besides the dominating stage works Richard Wagner's oeuvre catalogue shows several works for other genres, including compositions for choir, piano and chamber music as well as...
The Sieben Lieder, composed in 2014, are the outcome of reflection on the poetics of Paul Celan, an author who in my experience has been a powerful catalyst for musical ideas. While in my previous...
Franz Schubert's most known Mass was written in 1827, his penultimate year, at the same time as "Die Winterreise". As so often with songs that transcend their texts, here too he succeeded in creating...