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In 1862, the twenty-nine-year-old composer and pianist Johannes Brahms settled in Vienna, the capital of the western musical world. He introduced himself to that city’s musical elite with his Piano Quartet in G-minor, the first …

My favorite works by Edward Elgar are his Violin concerto, and the “Enigma Variations”. Today you have the opportunity to listen to the later. The Enigma variations dates from 1899. Elgar himself described its genesis …

The Violin Sonata No. 33 in E-flat major (K. 481) was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna on December 12, 1785. It was published on its own by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a German composer …

I travelled once long ago, from San Francisco to New York for one purpose: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was performing in three concerts at Carnegie Hall! Yes… it definitely was a memorable experience. Ms. Mutter began …

The three Romances were originally composed while Robert Schumann was in Dresden from the 7th through the 12th of December, 1849. The first known public performance took place on January 24th and the 14th of …