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Upon listening to the clarinetist Richard Mülhfeld play, Johannes Brahms became so enthusiastic about the clarinet’s possibilities that he began writing chamber works for him. Brahms was always particularly fond of the female alto voice, …

“I’ve been at the piano all week, composing and writing and laughing and crying, all at the same time,” wrote Robert Schumann to his beloved Clara Wieck from Vienna in March 1839. “You will find …

The name “Leonard Bernstein” usually raises an image of Bernstein the conductor, the educator, or the speaker. Keep in mind, however, that as a young lad he began to play the piano quite a long …

Khatia Buniatishvili is an artist of extraordinary talent and potential, and at the age of thirty she is taking on the music of one of history’s most elusive and misunderstood composers: Schubert. Granted, there are …

Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was a personal as well as a musical triumph for the composer. During his lifetime Rachmaninov suffered from depression. For three years, between 1897 and 1900, Rachmaninov …