Thursday, July 14, 2011

Berwald's Piano Quintet

If you were to ask me to remind any asteroids named after well-earned composers, I would name but a few. With concert halls it is much harder, and it is cuddlesome to realize that Franz Berwald has one in his native town – this Swedish composer was unable to make two ends meet during his life, but at least in 1976, after construction of Berwaldhallen began, justice was done. We all know that great minds do many things at once – among composers there were chemists and ornithologists (Alexander Borodin and Olivier Messiaen respectively), let us say. Berwald, in turn, was an expert and innovator in the field of orthopedic surgery. Nevertheless, the main love of his life was music, and it is really noticeable. Find a score of one of Berwald's pieces here: Piano Quintet No.2 in A Major, Op.6.

Haydn's Miracle Symphony No.102

They call Joseph Haydn the father in music. He is considered to be, indirectly, the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, hav...