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As a composer Mendelssohn possessed a perfect technical command of the resources available to him and was always able to write music that is remarkably economical in the way it achieves its effects. The series …

Like virtually all of the works from this most successful of Mozart’s years in Vienna, the Violin Sonata #32 was written for one of his own performances, or more correctly, for a concert given by …

The Symphony No. 1 in D Major by composer Gustav Mahler, was originally known as “Titan”. The work was considered unusually grand and ambitious for the late 1800’s, especially for a composer who was then …

On this post I have for you the music for duo pianists by Mozart and by Franz Schubert. The soloists are Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianists. The Schubert Fantasie in F-minor is one of my …

Johannes Brahms composed the Fourth Symphony during the summers of 1884–85 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, his summer retreat in the mountains southwest of Vienna. In September 1885, Brahms wrote to Hans von Bülow, conductor of the …