Improving Pianists
Written in 1784 during Haydn’s second escapade in London, this monothematic Sonata was one of a number of works he dedicated to the resident German pianist Therese Jansen-Bartolozzi, who ‘must have been a first-rate player’, inspiring ‘wonderful and highly demanding compositions from Clementi [of whom she was a pupil], and Dussek’ (Komlós, 1995, p.77). The […]
Title: Partimento: A Beginner Method for Classical Improvisation Author: Connor Gaydon Release Date: February 2023 (eBook) Price: £14 (or £2.50 per stage) Purpose: Provide beginner musicians a practical book to learn classical improvisation using the Partimento method. For over a century, classical improvisation has been a lost skill, until now. During the 17th-19th centuries, improvisation […]
Così fan tutte was composed during somewhat of a compositional drought for Mozart. He had written only 4 major works in 1789, the year prior to the premiere of this opera (Steptoe, 1988, p.71). This, as well as Mozart’s financial difficulties and reputational difficulties for Da Ponte, meant that much was dependent on Così fan […]
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