Schumann’s Kinderszenen are a bittersweet collection of piano miniatures covering themes like games of chase, night-time terrors, bedtime stories and sleep. And just listen to the power packed into her Piano Trio for piano, cello and violin. Her Viola Sonata is considered one of the greatest pieces ever written for the instrument. Her music is always thrilling, experimental and enormously powerful.
Rebecca Clarke was a 20th-century British composer, who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London before crossing the pond and spending the rest of her life in America. The build-up from the main theme and waltz-like accompaniment to the dramatic trill-filled finale makes the Nocturne in E-flat Major a strong contender for the most beautiful piano work ever written. 2)Ĭhopin composed his most well-known nocturne at the tender age of 20, which perhaps accounts for its youthful passion. Get it right, and it allows the most accomplished pianists to shine.Ĭhopin – Nocturne in E flat major (Op. Don’t be fooled by the initial simplicity of ‘Clair de Lune’: it took Debussy 15 years to write the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque, and the result is a work that sounds simple, but demands the very best from its performers. Curiously, ‘Clair de Lune’ also means ‘Moonlight’ – but there’s a stark contrast between Beethoven’s Romantic classicism and Debussy’s Impressionism.
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