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Pavane for a Dead Princess (in French: Pavane pour une Infante Defunte) is a luxurious ceremonial dance for piano by French impressionist composer Maurice Ravel. Later it was also transcribed to become an orchestral work. …

Yuja Wang was born in Beijing on February 10, 1987. An only child, she grew up with a dancer mother and percussionist father. She took up the piano at six, was identified as a major …

The historical evidence suggests that the sketches for the Symphony #5 by Tchaikovsky were done while he was at Frolovskoye between 9/21 May and 23 May of 1888. Probably it was this phase of the …

Beethoven’s compositions for violin and piano cover a period from about 1790 until 1818. An early set of variations on a theme from Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro and a Rondo were followed by …

Robert Schumann composed the Piano Concerto for his beloved wife, the pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896). The work originated in May of 1841 as a Fantasy in A minor for piano and orchestra. …