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Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony represents a turning point not only in Beethoven’s career, but also in the history of music, a stature shared by few other works, such as Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Wagner’s Tristan …

Krystian Zimerman was born into a musical family in Zabrze in southern Poland in 1956. He was introduced to chamber music-making as an infant by the many musicians who visited his home, received his first …

Born in San Francisco, Leon Fleisher began playing piano at the age of four, and began studying with Artur Schnabel at age nine. His students include André Watts, Yefim Bronfman, Hélène Grimaud, Louis Lortie, Jonathan …

Mozart composed the String Duo K. 423 during a visit to Salzburg from July to October 1783. According to historical notes, they were written to do his friend Michael Haydn a personal favor. Haydn had …

A lasting and productive experience of Antonin Dvorak’s American stay was his visit in the summer of 1893 to the Bohemian colony of Spillville, Iowa. It was there that Dvorak wrote much of his “New …