Happy Birthday, Brahms!

Russian composer, teacher and pianist - Sergei Taneev

“Maestro of the Italian revolution”, one of the most significant composers of the 19th century - Giuseppe Verdi 

“First composer” of the USSR - Sergei Prokofiev

Russian-soviet composer, pianist and teacher - Dmitry Shostakovich 

“A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.” (Edvard Grieg) Special episode, dedicated to Johannes Brahms on his 191st birthday 

Austrian composer, one of the founders of romanticism in music - Franz Schubert

The brilliant collaboration of five composers - the “Mighty bunch”

German composer, pianist, conductor and teacher of Jewish origin - Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy 

German composer, pianist, influential music critic - Robert Schumann

Russian composer and virtuoso pianist - Alexander Skryabin