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Composer Bela Bartok was battling with the final stages of leukemia when he struggled to complete his Piano Concerto No. 3, a gift for his wife. He completed all but the orchestration of the last …

Franz Schubert died at age 31. Future generations are fortunate that the composer left us amazing works of chamber music, symphonies, Ballets, sonatas, and also 600 songs! In his song, “Die Forelle” the poet tells …

Sviatoslav Richter’s great love as a young man was opera, and his remarkable sight reading skills permitted him to play operatic scores he had never seen before. He was thus able to secure a job …

This is the life story of pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At the very end of his final concert at his native Russia he played the “Traumerei” by Robert Schumann. Watch and listen to as much or …

When conductors first heard the voice of Lucia Popp during the early phases of her career, she was hired on the spot. These conductors were people such as Carlos Kleiber, and Herbert von Karajan. Listen …