If you are a music lover, then you likely said: Oh yes! I know the music and I know the performer. I listened to them yesterday, and I was thrilled. Here is the music with commentary in English a...
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The violin sonata no. 1 by Robert Schumann was composed during the week of 12 – 16 September, 1851. It was given its official premiere by Clara Schumann and violinist Ferdinand David in March 1...
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Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G begins with the crack of a whip, startling the orchestra’s piccolo into action. The scene seems set for a race. Before a minute has passed, each of the con...
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Dissonance Quartet, byname of String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K 465, string quartet (a type of chamber music for two violins, viola, and cello) in four movements by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It ...
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Beethoven worked on his Quartet Op. 130 intensively in the months from May to September 1825. It originates from a time that saw Beethoven dangerously ill, as he was suffering from an intestinal ...
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The Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002 by Johann Sebastian Bach, is a composition for solo violin composed by 1720. This partita is formed in the traditional way that consists of an allemande, a c...
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Neither Mozart nor his publisher called this piece “The Hunt”, as others have called it. However, the first movement of this composition evidently evoked the ‘chasse’ topic, the main comp...
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In spirit and form the Septet Opus 20 by Beethoven follows the model of 18th-century divertimentos, a lighter entertainment in a range of short movements. It opens, however, with an almost sympho...
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Written over ten days in early summer 1826, the quartet wasn’t published until 1851, twenty-three years after Schubert’s death. The first movement’s energetic pulse informs the scherzo and ...
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On the 9th February 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered the Piano Concerto No.14 in E flat major in his personal catalogue of works, and exactly 13 months later he completed his 21st concerto, ...
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