Our endless fascination with Mozart reflects the impact this incredible artist made in his short 35-year life. While Mozart was not revolutionary in the way that Beethoven would be in...
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Jean Françaix was a prodigious talent born to a musical family. His mother was a singer and his father was the director of the Le Mans Conservatory....
Frédéric Chopin was born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, a suburb of Warsaw. Six months after his birth, Chopin’s father, Nicholas, took a job teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum...
The concert opens with Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20, from 1948. Ginastera, universally acclaimed as Argentina’s greatest composer, was born in Buenos Aires in 1916 and died...
The piano was always central to the life and work of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). His mother, a music teacher, first taught Grieg how to play piano at the...
On September 23, 1777, Mozart left his native Salzburg bound for Paris by way of Munich, Augsburg, and Mannheim. Mozart and his ever-ambitious father, Leopold, hoped to secure a position...
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