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The brilliant Spanish-born pianist, Alicia de Larrocha, studied piano with Frank Marshall at his Academia Marshall, and music theory with Riccardo Lamote de Grignon. She made her first public appearance with a solo recital at …

For me, conductor Carlos Kleiber was the all-time greatest conductor ever! While it likely is not possible to explain why, I will try to do so: Kleiber came from a musical family. His father, Erich …

Franz Schubert composed this sonata in October 1826, the year in which he completed his Great C-major Symphony and his dark and brooding G major string quartet. He was already ill, and much of his …

Here is the English translation for this masterpiece, which is sung in German: The Shepherd on the Rock. When on the highest cliff I stand, gaze down into the deep valley and sing, the echo …

Mozart’s String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 is like all of Mozart’s string quintets a “viola quintet” in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (that is, two …