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Felix Mendelssohn first thought about writing a piece such as the Scottish Symphony in 1829, when he toured the British Isles in the company of Karl Klingemann, a friend eleven years his elder. In July, …

In 1731, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) gathered six keyboard partitas that he had previously composed and published individually, and issued them himself as his Op. 1, the first part of his monumental Clavier Übung (Keyboard …

On July 30, 1838, Felix Mendelssohn wrote to his friend, the well-known German violinist Ferdinand David, “I’d like to write a violin concerto for you next winter; one in E minor sticks in my head, …

Born in 1975, Avner Dorman completed his Doctoral degree as a C.V. Starr fellow at the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, and his Master’s degree at Tel Aviv University, where he majored …

The Schubert Impromptus have been my favorites for many years. I have listened to this music as performed by many different artists. I like some, and I do not like others. Today I heard Mitsuko …