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Composed in 1808, Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is about the power of nature to heal and restore the human spirit. Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony contains five movements providing five descriptions about nature. Beethoven gave a title to …

The Arabesque #1 by Claude Debussy was composed in 1891. The “Deux Arabesques” were the first solo piano works published by the young Debussy; he was still in his 20s. Well over 100,000 copies of …

Henryk Szeryng was born on Sept. 22, 1918 in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, and he died March 3, 1988 in Kassel, Germany. Szeryng studied with Carl Flesch in Berlin and with Jacques Thibaud in Paris. …

Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto debuted in 1807 at the palace of Beethoven’s patron, Prince Lobkowitz. Its public debut occurred in a remarkable five hour concert on December 22, 1808, which also premiered the Fifth and …

Johannes Brahms actually had multiple careers in music: Early on he was a choir director; then he teamed up with violinist Joseph Joachim and they gave concerts throughout Europe. When Brahms began to give thought …