Violinist Janine Jansen Plays Beethoven
Janine Jansen was born in Soest, a Dutch town in the province of Utrecht. To say that she grew up in a musical family is like saying that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in a …
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Mikhail Pletnev Plays Rachmaninov
Mikhail Pletnev is an artist who cannot be classified in one word. He is one of the greatest pianists of our time, and he is also a conductor and composer. Born in Archangel, Russia in …
Violin Concerto by Karl Goldmark
Composer Karl Goldmark was born May 18, 1830, Keszthely, Hungary, and he died Jan. 2, 1915in Vienna Austria. Goldmark studied violin in Vienna and theory under Gottfried Preyer; During his long career in Vienna he became …
Martha Argerich Performs Chopin for You
Frederick Chopin knew all of Bach’s Preludes by heart; he used them diligently in his own practice sessions and also as instructional material for his piano students. When Chopin decided to write some preludes of …
Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade”
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” (Gretchen …