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During the last weeks of his life, Schubert was able to complete works we now know to be among his greatest masterpieces. These include the String Quintet in C and the final three piano sonatas …

The Austrian cellist and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, grew up in Graz (Austria) and studied the cello in Vienna, where from 1952 to 1969 he was a cellist with the Vienna Symphony …

Franz Schubert composed some very sad sonatas for piano. One of my favorites is the Sonata in B-Flat, D. 960. Here is pianist Murray Perahia playing this music just for you:

Maurice Ravel might have been approaching his own crossroads in the fall of 1929, just before pianist Paul Wittgenstein contacted him for a commission. We know, through hindsight, that he was nearing the end of …

Pianist Glenn Gould died on October 4, 1982. As a memorial to this amazing musician, we have for you today the piano and violin sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach, in which the violin is played …