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Mozart, who had been profoundly moved by Haydn’s String Quartets op. 33, composed the six quartets of which this is one, between 1782 and 1785 and he dedicated them to his friend Joseph Haydn with the words: …

The most celebrated component of the six Op. 64 quartets is the Fifth, in D, the so-called “Lark” of which Richard Wigmore writes: “The first movement’s unforgettable, winged melody sounds high on the first violin’s …

Johannes Brahms’ Intermezzo in A, op. 118 no. 2 is surely one of the most beloved short piano pieces from the Romantic period. The second from the set of six Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces), op. 118, the …

In 1886, when he composed his Violin Sonata, César Franck (1822-1890) was 64 years old and still a fairly obscure figure in the French musical world: a church organist and professor of organ at the …

The premiere of this concert took place on November 28, 1909, with Rachmaninoff as soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Some weeks later, it would be heard in New York again, this time with …