Schubert’s Symphony #9 (The Great)
Schubert began his Symphony No. 9 in the summer of 1825 and continued to work on it over the next two years. In 1828 Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Friends of Music) agreed to …
Composers Archive
Introducing Violinist Veronika Eberle
Sir Simon Rattle’s introduced violinist Veronika Eberle aged just 16 to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival, and brought her to international attention. She performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Key orchestra …
We Celebrate Mozart’s Birthday!
Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died in 1791 in Austria. From a young age his father paraded him to European nobility to show them the amazing genius that he was. Today, we …
Mendelssohn Octet
Felix Mendelssohn composed his remarkable String Octet in October 1825, when he was 16 years old; the first performance took place before the end of that year in one of the Sunday musicales at his …
Carlos Kleiber Conducts Johann Strauss
While he chose to conduct rarely, Carlos Kleiber was one phenomenal conductor, and perhaps the finest during the past 100 years. Carlos was the son of the great German conductor Erich Kleiber, and Carlos – because …