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Some musicians have proposed that the Serenade K.361 was composed for Mozart’s own wedding, while others aren’t in agreement. What is true is that Serenades like Mozart’s K.361 were often composed for functions and outdoor …

Violist Amihai Grosz works with artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Emmanuel Pahud, Mitsuko Uchida, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin and others. After 10 years of professional work, 2010 marked the start of something new for Amihai …

The Three Intermezzi, Op.117 by Johannes Brahms were composed together with Fantasien Op.116 during his short stay at Bad Ischl, in Austria. When Brahms sent this set of Intermezzi to Clara Schumann, she claimed, “in …

Born in the USA to Swedish parents, conductor Herbert Blomstedt began his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the University of Uppsala. He later studied conducting at the Juilliard …

During the period that Mozart composed his 19th piano concerto, he was the most admired pianist in Vienna. In fact, the year the work premiered, 1784, Mozart was so much in demand that during that …