Musical Moments from Chopin or Chopin’s Musical Moments is a 1946 Academy Award-nominated Andy Panda cartoon, co-starring Woody Woodpecker. It features music by Frédéric Chopin.
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, was composed between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with Sergei …
Impromptu Op 90 No 4 is the fourth piece of a series of eight for solo piano composed in 1827 by Franz Schubert. They were published in two sets of four impromptus each.
Large parts of the concluding fugue of Bach’s Toccata in E minor BWV914 seems to be borrowed directly from an anonymous composition discovered in a Naples manuscript. The subject is almost identical.
Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2 is the second piece of a series of eight for solo piano composed in 1827 by Franz Schubert. They were published in two sets of four impromptus each: the first two pieces in the first set were published in the composer’s lifetime as Op. 90.
The Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1, is an early-period work by Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to Baroness Josefa von Braun, one of his patrons at that time. It was composed in 1798 and arranged for string quartet by the composer in 1801.
Après un rêve (After a dream) is a melody by the French composer Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924). Gabriel Fauré was a composer, organist, pianist …
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-Flat Major is the sixth work of the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies composed by Franz Liszt. This piece was later arranged for orchestra. In its original piano version, it is famous for its very fast octaves in the last part.
Chopin’s Ballade No 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47, dating from 1841, is dedicated to Pauline de Noailles. The inspiration for this Ballade by Frédéric Chopin is usually claimed to be Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Undine, also known as Świtezianka.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set. Liszt was strongly influenced by Hungarian folk music, with its unique gypsy scale.
