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Always self-critical, Johannes Brahms worked on his Second Piano Concerto for three years. He wrote to Clara Schumann: “I want to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a very …

Violinist and conductor, Joshua Bell, was born in Bloomington, Indiana. His mother, Shirley, was a therapist. His father, Alan P. Bell, was a psychologist, Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington. His father is of …

Today, so many years after being composed, we are still struck with the astonishing beauty and dramatic power of so much of Rameau’s music. The heart-stopping vocal quartet in the third entrée can still bring …

Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major on December 16, 1785 as he was approaching the height of his popularity in Vienna. Almost simultaneously, he had been working on the score to …

Mozart wrote the so-called “Kegelstatt” Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano for Franziska von Jacquin, his favorite piano student, and Anton Stadler, friend and one of history’s first clarinet virtuosi. For it’s debut, Mozart himself …