I had the amazing opportunity to hear Yehudi Menuhin live at a San Francisco concert in 1961. He played the Beethoven concerto. Menuhin died in Berlin while on a concert tour in 1999. He was …
Johannes Brahms had several roles in Music: He was a pianist, he was a choir director, and he performed on tour to perform duets with violinist Joseph Joachim. And yes, while he was a composer …
Johannes Brahms dedicated his cello sonata to Josef Gänsbacher, who was flattered and delighted. When Brahms visited him, he insisted on playing through the piece with the composer, giving rise to a possibly often repeated and …
It was in 1862 that Brahms wrote the first two movements of his first Cello Sonata, the year of his first visit to Vienna. At the time, however, there still seemed some possibility of employment …