Auteur: André Terebesi

On his sister Fanny’s birthday on 14 November 1828 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy surprised her with a piano piece in E flat major entitled ‘Lied’. A little later, Fanny called the work ‘Lied ohne Worte …

Robert Schumann’s ‘Album für die Jugend’ (‘Album for the Young’) was written in 1848 as a Christmas present for his children and was originally entitled ‘Weihnachtsalbum für Kinder, die gern Clavier …

The mazurka was Chopin’s companion throughout his entire artistic life: He wrote the Mazurka in A minor Op. 68 at the age of seventeen, and even his very last composition was dedicated to this Polish …