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While Mozart’s D-Minor Concerto makes its stormy intentions clear from the very beginning, it does not state its principal theme at the outset; rather, there are a few bars of murmurous, agitated, syncopated swirlings in …

Robert Schumann composed Kinderszenen in February and March 1838, during a separation from his fiancée Clara Wieck. The translation of the German title is “Scenes from Childhood” Depictions of children at that time tended glorify …

In October 1788, Mozart wrote the Piano Trio in G major K564. It is a sign of the times that it was first published in England, not in Vienna. And it is a sign of …

Antonin Dvořák was always skeptical of the cello as a suitable instrument for a concerto. He loved the instrument’s middle range, but wasn’t fond of the high register or the “mumbling” lowest notes. Also, he …

The E-flat major Sonata, op. 12, no. 3 by Beethoven is a grand, virtuoso work, whose opening shows just the kind of expansive gestures that set Beethoven’s themes apart from those of his Classic period …