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Although Johannes Brahms was just 50 when he composed his Third Symphony, he looked back to younger days with the musical quotation of the motto “Frei aber froh” (“Free but happy”) which was his defiant …

Bela Bartok composed the score for his “Concerto for Orchestra” in only two months at the health resort of Saranac Lake in upstate New York, and he completed on October 8, 1943. The first performance, …

Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major on December 16, 1785 as he was approaching the height of his popularity in Vienna. Almost simultaneously, he had been working on the score to …

After a slow introduction, the first movement of Haaydn’s Symphony #88 moves into a perky Allegro in which Haydn plays with the conventions of sonata form so that every detail seems spontaneous. To mention just …

violinist Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, France in 1902. His real name was René-Charles Francescatti. Both his parents played the violin, and his father René had been a student of Paganini. The younger Francescatti …