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The Symphony #2 opens serenely as Brahms gives the horns, winds, and finally the strings a melody that certainly qualifies as serene. This melody grows out of three notes sounded by the basses and cellos, …

Mozart’s third concerto in G major is a work of very considerable charm, a fine example of how Mozart was experimenting with adventurous ideas while still adhering to a Classical idiom. It reveals common ground …

At age 57, Anton Bruckner was still largely unknown as a composer; the son of a village school teacher, he had become Austria’s best organist and a professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Vienna …

At the beginning of 1854, after his soaring fortunes at age 21, Johannes Brahms set out to write his Trio in B major for Piano, Violin and Cello. The trio was originally issued in November …

Antonín Dvořák composed his famous Serenade for Strings in E in just two weeks during a creative spell in May 1875. This was a particularly creative year for Dvořák, as he had also composed his …