Great Piano Works Explained

Great Piano Works Explained « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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Genres: Documentary

In this course, you’ll study key works of many composers, from Bach and Mozart through music written in the 21st century, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.

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J. S. Bach and The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bach’s French Suites

Joseph Haydn’s Early Classical Piano

Mozart’s High Classical Piano

Mozart’s Sonata in C Minor, K. 457

Beethoven’s Sonata in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1

Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31, Op. 110, Movt. 1

Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31, Op. 110, Movts. 2–3

The Songs of Franz Schubert

Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960

Robert Schumann’s Romantic Dream World

Clara Schumann and the Plight of Women Composers

Frédéric Chopin: Piano’s Quintessential Romantic

Chopin’s Nocturnes and Ballades

Johannes Brahms: Piano’s Dark Poet

Franz Liszt: The Consummate Pianist

The Rise of the Russian Pianists

Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern

Claude Debussy’s “Clair de lune”

The Preludes of Debussy

French Piano in the Early 20th Century

Charles Ives, Sergei Prokofiev, and Béla Bartók

Marginalized Composers

New Sounds for a New Century