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  Sibelius’ Concerto I’ve been listening to the Violin concerto by Jean Sibelius. This Finnish composer was born in 1865 and died in 1957. His music is lyrical, dramatic, and emotional. When I thought about …

Mozart composed his second-to-last piano sonata in February 1789, but it did not become known until five years after his death when it was published as a sonata for piano and violin! This B-flat major …

During the last weeks of his life, Schubert was able to complete works we now know to be among his greatest masterpieces. These include the String Quintet in C and the final three piano sonatas …

The Austrian cellist and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, grew up in Graz (Austria) and studied the cello in Vienna, where from 1952 to 1969 he was a cellist with the Vienna Symphony …

Franz Schubert composed some very sad sonatas for piano. One of my favorites is the Sonata in B-Flat, D. 960. Here is pianist Murray Perahia playing this music just for you: