Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Après les trois Sonates pour piano op. 2 datant des années 1794/1795, Beethoven projetait probablement rapidement la composition d’un nouveau groupe de trois sonates. La Grande Sonate op. 7 fut, en raison de ses vastes dimensions, dissociée de ce projet et publiée à part. Et pourtant, avec les Sonates en ut mineur, Fa majeur et Ré majeur, la prochaine triade fut prête déb…

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The little march composed in 1924 forms the nucleus of the suite for wind instruments Mládí (HN 1093/7093), in which the jaunty flute theme weaves through the 3rd movement. Incidentally, the 'bluebirds? do not refer to birds but to the light blue robes worn by the choristers at the monastery in Brno, which Janá?ek entered at the age of eleven. Almost 60 years later during a visit to Potsdam he rem…

Par HAYDN JOSEPH. Les douze «Symphonies de Londres» constituent le sublime accord final dans l’œuvre symphonique de Haydn. Elles furent composées pour l’impresario londonien Johann Peter Salomon, et Haydn lui-même en dirigea les créations alors qu’il demeurait pour un certain temps dans la métropole anglaise dans les années 1791-92 et 1794-95. La Symphonie n° 93 en Ré majeur, vraisemblablement com…

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Debussy's new string quartet received a very cool reception at its première in Paris in December 1893, performed by the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. The critics were upset by its unusual harmonies and orchestral sounds, and the musicians who were later presented with it considered it 'unplayable?. Nevertheless the work was able to establish itself in the years that followed and today belongs to the core …

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody? - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane? in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch?. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. 'Tzigane? was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already prom…

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