Clara Schumann The wife of Robert Schumann was herself an outstanding, well-known composer. In the light of the biographies of Cassia and Hildegard, it is probably not surprising that Clara…
Tchaikovsky had hope( that’s how name Nadezhda is translated),Nadezhda von Meck. They left over a thousand letters to the world. 14 years of correspondence and not a single meeting in…
The war in Ukraine looms over the prestigious contest named for the pianist Van Cliburn, who was a symbol for art transcending global politics. FORT WORTH, Texas — On a…
Do you know that the grand piano we are so used to see on stage these days, did not always look that way? Gravicembalo col piano e forte = soft…