Every day, you hear an interval, feel its pull, and write the line that resolves it.
For three hundred years, composers learned this way — Fux to Boulanger, in the same room where the student wrote, sang, and listened, then wrote again. Gradus rebuilds that room.
You write from day one.
Counterpoint exercises in the morning, four-part chorales in the afternoon, an original sketch by the end of the week. Maestro, your personal composition professor, reads every line you write and tells you what the old masters would say.
In a world where software writes music on demand, there will always be a place for the composer who actually understands the craft. Gradus exists to make you that composer.
A complete conservatory,
in one practice system.
Everything connected. Everything pointed at one thing: your ability to write music.
- Curriculum
- Ten stages, from your first interval to your first symphony. Theory as it actually unfolded.
- Composition Studios
- Beginner Sketchbook, Counterpoint Workshop, Master Sketchbook. You write from day one.
- Score Study
- The canon, annotated bar by bar. Read the music the way the masters read it.
- Historical Sources
- Fux, Bach, Mozart, Boulanger, Lasser. The primary texts, not the summaries.
- Lineage
- The method that trained Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms — the same Fux-to-Boulanger pedagogy, rebuilt for daily practice.
- Maestro
- Your personal composition professor. He reads every sketch and tells you what the old masters would say.
Young composer in the house?
Ages 4–8 get their own adventure-map track — colorful note characters, three playable demos, and Maestro as a cartoon guide. The same craft, told the way a child can hear it.
See the Young Composers Track →A generated score is not composition — any more than a calculator is mathematics.