Charles Koechlin: Paysages et marines, Op. 63 When French artist Henri Rivière (1864–1951) designed his first set of lithographs, it was for a very specific audience. The 16 pictures that formed Les aspects de la nature (Aspects of Nature) were

Stephen Hartke: The King of the Sun American composer Stephen Hartke (b. 1952) was commissioned by Chamber Music America for a work for the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. Written in 1988, his piece The King of the Sun is based

Inspirations Behind Philip Sawyers’ Hommage to Kandinsky The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was one of the founders of abstraction in western art and is also considered one of the most musical of the modern painters. He equated painting with

Jessica Krash: Be Seeing You American composer Jessica Krash was commissioned by two Washington DC arts institutions, the National Gallery of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts to create a work based on 14 works of

Simone Iannarelli: Siete pinturas de Frida Kahlo The Mexican artist Frieda Kahlo (1907–1954) was one of the first women artists who brought ideas rarely explored by male artists to the foreground in her work, including chronic pain, postcolonialism, gender, and

Hans Werner Henze: Das Floß der Medusa French artist Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) created his larger-than-life-size painting Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa) in 1818 and 1819 to commemorate the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse.

Kenneth Fuchs: Where Have You Been, “String Quartet No. 2” American artist Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) grew up on the Pacific Coast, spending his time between California and Washington state. At Stanford University, where he received a BA in philosophy, he

Sándor Veress: Piano Trio, “3 Quadri” The three 17th-century painters, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, were all inspiration to Hungarian-Swiss composer Sándor Veress (1907 – 1992) for his 1963 piano trio. From Claude Lorrain (ca 1600-1682),