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Claude Debussy’s trio is a full-fledged four movement work with a prevailing French style characterized by lyricism, clarity and gentle sensibility that is charming more than dramatic. The earlier trios of Cesar Franck and Saint-säens …

Lucia Popp made her stage debut as a singer at age 23 at the Bratislava Opera singing the role of Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 1963 Herbert von Karajan heard her …

It is my personal opinion that Carlos Kleiber was the best orchestral and Opera conductor during the past 100 years. I want to share with you the methods that Kleiber employed to get the musicians …

In the summer of 1783, Mozart made his return trip home to Vienna from Salzburg. He stopped at the city named Linz, where Mozart’s patron, Count Thun, offered him his hospitality. During his time in …

Robert Schumann completed his symphony #4 in 1841. Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication. Schumann’s revision of the symphony #4 did not change the unique form …