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When I think of David Oistrakh, what comes to mind are the amazing violin concertos of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and more. Today I have for you the same amazing musician in a different role: Here …

Robert Schumann composed the Piano Concerto for his beloved wife, the pianist and composer Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896). The work originated in May of 1841 as a Fantasy in A minor for piano and orchestra. …

Schumann’s Piano Quartet dates from the autumn of 1842, known as “the year of chamber music.” In this year, he composed not only this work, but also three string quartets, a piano quintet, and a …

Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 13, D. 664 was originally thought to have been composed in 1825. However, recent scholarship suggests that the sonata was composed some years earlier during the summer of 1819, which …

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 …