His first contact with music, Torbj?rn got at the age of three when his father Iwan brought home a gramophone and played the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. It made an indelible impression...
Music in the tempest of the times: If we seek to deal with Gerhard Frommel's personality and music (a master pupil of Hans Pfitzner) in greater depth, as in the case of many other German composers of...
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) composed his Symphony No 6 in E flat minor, Opus 111 between 1945 and February 1947, though his sketches date from 1944 - before his completion of the Fifth Symphony. The...
Currently, Feliks Nowowiejski is recognisable mainly as the author of music to Maria Konopnicka's Oath, alternatively as composer of organ and oratorio music. His symphonic output, overshadowed by...