Posts Tagged ‘sonatas’

Giovanni Battista Sammartini’s Sonatas for Cello & B.C.

The Cello Sonatas presented here mark the transition between Baroque and Classicism, music full of charm, gracefulness, cantabile melodies and instrumental flourish. Source

Johann Bapist Vanhal’s Sonatas for Clarinet & Harpsichord

By Brilliant Classics Like Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so many others, Vanhal became the composer and the man we know him as now when he moved to Vienna. He was 22 years old when he settled there in 1761, and soon adopted a new identity, not as the Czech-born Jan Křtitel Vaňhal but as the […]

50 Classical Piano Sonatas

Just some more beautiful classical music to get you through the ugly modern culture. [embedded content] Share now! Source

Ferdinand Ries’ Sonatas for Flute & Piano

The figure of Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838) enjoys a peripheral familiarity among music-lovers as the friend and amanuensis of Beethoven. Source

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch’s Trio Sonatas

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–ca 1763) was one of the leading musical lights of Berlin during the mid-eighteenth-century. The Prussian capital city was then growing rapidly in population and wealth, well on its way to becoming one of Europe’s great cultural centres. Janitsch, then as now, was known primarily for his chamber music, whose style, a […]

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