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J.S. Bach composed the 6 Suites for violoncello senza basso during the years he was “Anhalt-Köthen Prince’s own musical director” at the court of Köthen between 1717 and 1723. At that time, music was prohibited in …

150 years have passed since the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra began to play concerts at the Musikvereinssahl, The Golden Hall of the Friends of Music. Here is what this building looks like today. When I was …

The piano concerto #25 by Mozart was composed  for himself “or for a small circle of amateurs and connoisseurs”, which resulted in the fact that – excepting a few – it was not published during …

Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor, K 406 is the composer’s own arrangement of his Wind Serenade, K. 388, for two oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoon, written in 1782. It is mentioned by Mozart in a letter …

The song by Schubert titled “Gretchen am Spinnrade” communicates in the poem and in the music the longing that one one feels when your special person is not with you. Franz Schubert also composed other …