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I recently listened to pianist Aimi Kobayashi as she performed the Mozart piano concerto #26. She seemed to be Age 10 or so. I loved her playing! Now she’s older, and still sounding great… So …

I listened to pianist Irene Veneziano for the first time today, and I loved her playing! Irene Veneziano is a graduate of the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, and the Accademia Nazionale di …

During World War I, French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) wrote a six-movement suite for solo piano titled Le tombeau de Couperin. A “tombeau” (“tomb” in French) is a musical tribute to someone who has passed …

The Scarlatti Sonata in G major K 455, is very dancelike and popular, filled with the rhythmic click and snap of Spanish castanets. Guitar idioms are heard in the repeated notes that dominate the last …

The first movement of the Symphony #39 opens with a slow, serious, chromatic introduction, colored by brass fanfares and descending lines. Such solemnity was a new type of beginning for Mozart. And he offered another …