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Composer Johannes died on April 3, 1897. A few years earlier the outstanding clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired Brahms to compose several works, including two sonatas. Brahms intended that the Clarinet sonatas could be equally suitable …

I feel grateful that there is so much music on the planet that is capable of providing healing for those who truly listen to what the composer is sharing with us through sound. For me, …

The first version of this Serenade featured pairs of clarinets, horns, and bassoons, but within a short while the Viennese court established a wind octet which added oboes to this line-up. In his haste (as …

The Piano Concerto #3 by Rachmaninov was first performed on Sunday, November 28, 1909 in New York City. Sergei Rachmaninoff was the soloist. The work received a second performance under conductor Gustav Mahler on January 16, 1910, …

What greater compliment can a composer receive than the fact that Gustav Mahler would perform your works? Such was in fact the case with the life of Peter Tchaikovsky when Mahler performed Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6. …