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The Three Intermezzi, Op.117 by Johannes Brahms were composed together with Fantasien Op.116 during his short stay at Bad Ischl, in Austria. When Brahms sent this set of Intermezzi to Clara Schumann, she claimed, “in …

Born in the USA to Swedish parents, conductor Herbert Blomstedt began his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the University of Uppsala. He later studied conducting at the Juilliard …

During the period that Mozart composed his 19th piano concerto, he was the most admired pianist in Vienna. In fact, the year the work premiered, 1784, Mozart was so much in demand that during that …

Whether or not Schubert regarded today’s version of his B-minor Symphony as complete is no longer a matter for speculation. We know that he planned to complete it, since piano sketches — a few measures …

Amy Beach was born in New Hampshire in 1867 and it quickly became clear that she was not quite like other babies. By the age of one she’s said to have been able to sing 40 …