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Mozart completed his Concerto No. 21 only a month after his previous concerto. He would write four more in the next 21 months. Because Mozart wrote them for his own concert performances in Vienna, he …

Johann Sebastian Bach began work on his six sonatas for violin and harpsichord (BWV 1014-19) while at the courts of Weimar and Köthen and returned to the compositions over several decades, revising and polishing until …

The Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major by Mozart’s remains one of his warmest, most recognizable violin pieces. The first movement immediately proclaims the equality of violin and piano: the amiable melody is first …

The Scherzo #3 for your enjoyment:

In response to a commission from Count Troyer, who wanted a work closely modelled on Beethoven’s famous Septet op.20, Franz Schubert struck out on his own by delivering an Octet of his own, too. It …