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Christian Ferras was born at Le Touquet, France in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. In 1948 Ferras won First Prize at the international Scheveningen Festival; Yehudi Menuhin was among the judges. …

Mozart composed his Clarinet Concerto for the clarinettist Anton Stadler, who was the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. It was the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – …

In Beethoven’s sixth sonata for violin and piano, Beethoven has become very much his own man, striking out with a distinctly formed individuality almost free of the ties that bound him to his predecessors, Mozart, …

The name “Moonlight Sonata” was given to this music by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab five years after Beethoven’s death. This sonata consists of three movemens: Adagio sostenuto, allegretto and presto agitato. …

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his 2nd Piano Trio in 1944 during World War Two when he was 38 years old. Shostakovich had come to international attention with the writing of his 7th Symphony earlier in the …