The Gymnopédies are three works for piano composed by Erik Satie and published in Paris in 1888. The title comes from a Spartan celebrations and the characteristic of these three songs is that they have a uncertain harmony, this concept will…
Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian composer who has a long career as a musician. He has created soundtracks, albums and collaborations, and ranged in various musical styles, from classical to rock and jazz. Einaudi studied at the Conservatory of Milan with…
El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet’s classical guitar transcription as an encore. This song…
In our time, video games can also bring something musical. I remember a game a few years, I think his name was “The Pilgrim”, when I felt an arpeggio of classical guitar, then I discovered it was the Study n.…
The famous “Funeral March” is the third movement of the Piano Sonata n. 2 by Chopin. This music was often used by bands for funeral processions of people more or less known and in movies, from which his great celebrity.…
White Christmas is the biggest selling single in history, and certainly a very nice Christmas song. It was composed by Irving Berlin and the first known version was recorded by Bing Crosby in 1942. The morning after writing the song,…
The song that is now universally known as “Ave Maria” by Schubert, actually is a Lied called “The Lady of the Lake“, with a text by Walter Scott translated into German. The song began with the words Ave Maria, as…
