Concerto Archive

Johannes Brahms composed his violin concerto for his friend, Joseph Joachim 25 years after their first meeting, and Brahms worked closely with him in creating the solo part; he clearly intended the Concerto to be a …

Wolfgang Mozart died on December 5, 1791. He was 35 years old, and he created some of the most amazing music that generations that followed are able to enjoy: Operas, sonatas, chamber music, songs, symphonies …

Johannes Brahms composed this concerto for his friend and renowned violinist, Joseph Joachim. Many critics at the time claimed the music Brahms had written was too difficult as it included rapid broken chords, scales and double …

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 …

Violinist Julia Fischer was born in 1983, in Munich, Germany. She began taking lessons on the violin at age 3 from Helge Thelen, and at 4 began simultaneous studies on the piano with her mother, …