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The Violin Sonata No. 33 in E-flat major (K. 481) was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna on December 12, 1785. It was published on its own by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a German composer …

I travelled once long ago, from San Francisco to New York for one purpose: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was performing in three concerts at Carnegie Hall! Yes… it definitely was a memorable experience. Ms. Mutter began …

The three Romances were originally composed while Robert Schumann was in Dresden from the 7th through the 12th of December, 1849. The first known public performance took place on January 24th and the 14th of …

Nowhere is the pianist so often an ensemble partner and so rarely a soloist aggressively in the foreground as in this first movement of the Rachmaninov Second Concerto. The initial impulse plays itself out in …

The Intermezzo op. 118 #2 was written in 1893, towards the end of Brahms life. Along with the other sets of short pieces (op. 116, 117, and 119), these are his final works for the …