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Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan classical pianist who is particularly known for adding improvisations to her performances. Gabriela Montero was born on May 10, 1970 in Caracas Venezuela; Montero gave her first public piano recital …

The original sketch for Schumann’s C-major Symphony took less than a week’s effort, but its completion, delayed by bouts of failing health took nearly a year. With Mendelssohn’s encour- agement, the task was finally completed …

Franz Schubert’s  String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden,” is one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire. Writing in 1824, Schubert did what many great composers do: he borrowed from himself. The …

The preface to the score of “La Valse” includes the following descriptive note: “Whirling clouds give glimpses, through rifts, of couples dancing. The clouds scatter, little by little. One sees an immense hall peopled with …

Schubert composed the Piano Sonata in A-Major, D664 when he was on a two-month vacation at a place in Austria called Steyer. It was composed for the daughter, Josephine, of his host there. This is …