The method that trained Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Now it trains you.
For three hundred years, every great composer learned the same way — Fux to Boulanger. Gradus is that tradition, rebuilt as a practice system you do every day.
Or take a guided tour of every room →A generated score is not composition — any more than a calculator is mathematics.
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.
Not videos. Not passive reading. You write music from day one. Every lesson ends with a composition challenge. The craft is earned through practice.
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.
- 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 →