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At age 57, Anton Bruckner was still largely unknown as a composer; the son of a village school teacher, he had become Austria’s best organist and a professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Vienna …

At the beginning of 1854, after his soaring fortunes at age 21, Johannes Brahms set out to write his Trio in B major for Piano, Violin and Cello. The trio was originally issued in November …

Antonín Dvořák composed his famous Serenade for Strings in E in just two weeks during a creative spell in May 1875. This was a particularly creative year for Dvořák, as he had also composed his …

Orchestral and Opera conductor, Carlos Kleiber, was—in my view— the greatest conductor of the past 100 years. Kleiber was born in 1930, the son of eminent Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber. Kleiber has conducted the Vienna …

More than two hundred years ago, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that would change the way composers thought about songwriting. That young man was Franz Schubert, and his song “Gretchen am Spinnrade” …