Easley Blackwood Jr. as "Introducing Easley Blackwood". His father, Easley Blackwood Sr., was a noted contract bridge player and writer. Easley Blackwood Jr. Easley Blackwood (born April 21, 1933) is an American professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony. Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He studied piano there and was doing solo appearances at the age of 14 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After studies at many places (including Yale University, where he earned his
F-A-E Sonata in 1906, nearly ten years after Brahms's death. Whether Dietrich made any further use of his sonata-allegro is not known. The complete sonata was first published in 1935. All three composers also wrote violin concerti for Joachim. Schumann's was completed on 3 October 1853, just before the "F-A-E Sonata" was begun. Joachim never performed it, unlike the concertos of Brahms and Dietrich. Steven Isserlis, the English cellist and Schumann aficionado, has transcribed the "F-A-E Sonata" for cello and piano. F-A-E Sonata The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is a collaborative musical work by three composers: Robert