Autor: Slavy Dimov

Fleeing conscription into Napoleon’s army Kuhlau landed in Copenhagen with a stack of manuscripts under his arm. Riding on the popularity of his piano concerto this sonata was one of the first of his …

Composed in 1862 when Liszt learned of the ultimate impossibility of his marriage to Princess Carolyne the two transcriptions from Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ of ‘Confutatis maledictis’ and ‘Lacrymosa’ hint a …