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Hear the evolution of keyboard fantasias — stretching from the 17th century to today — with works by Telemann, Mozart, Chopin, and Billy Joel.

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Robert Blocker plays Telemann and Schumann

Yale University

Robert Blocker, piano

A recital by the Professor of Piano who the Los Angeles Times has said performs with “a measurable virtuoso bent and considerable musical sensitivity.”

American classical music has long been indebted to the European tradition. This concert features European composers that had major influence on the American music scene.

Antonín Dvorák lived was the head of the first music conservatory in the United States, encouraging American composers to use folk music to create a national style. Ernst Bloch was the president of Cleveland Institute of Music and San Francisco Conservatory, while composing his distinctive music. Amy Beach, the lone American composer on the program, was educated in the European tradition while studying at the New England Conservatory

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Robert Blocker

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Oct 21, 2026

Robert Blocker plays Telemann and Schumann · Yale School of Music

Feb 25, 2026

Robert Blocker, piano · Yale School of Music

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Fantasiestucke by Schumann

Yale School of Music

Piano in Fantasia in C Major, HobXVII:4 by Haydn

Yale School of Music

Piano in Fantasia No. 1 in D Major (TWV 33:1) by Telemann

Yale School of Music

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