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Composer Modest Mussorgsky composed “Pictures at an Exhibition” as a memorial to his friend, the Russian artist Viktor Hartmann, who had died in 1873 at age 39. Shortly after the artist’s death, Mussorgsky visited a …

Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov began studying the piano at the age of five and at seven entered the Leningrad Conservatory to study with Leah Zelikhman, where he later studied with Moisey Khalfin. He gave his …

In the year 1786, Mozart was making most of his money from performing, rather than composing, and the piano concerti numbers 22-24 were likely premiered on a series of concerts he presented in Vienna during …

Schubert began his Symphony No. 9 in the summer of 1825 and continued to work on it over the next two years. In 1828 Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Friends of Music) agreed to …

Sir Simon Rattle’s introduced violinist Veronika Eberle aged just 16 to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, and brought her to international attention. She performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Key orchestra …