The concert will feature pianist Michael Rickman with violinist Susan Pitard Acree, violist Zoriy Zinger and cellist Joseph ...

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Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born into a musical family, he was a gifted pianist, organist, violinist and boy soprano. His foray into composition began with lessons from Antonio Salieri, with whom ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...

Franz Schubert wrote three of his four works for piano trio in the penultimate year of his life, and the other when he was a mere 15 years old. Why there was such a gap remains a mystery, but there is ...

The February 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose short stature and portly girth earned him the affectionate nickname of ...

It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them in instrumental arrangements. On one hand, you've got to admire their love of ...

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For years, CDs have arrived each week by the dozen, their styles, careers, and time periods all competing for my attention. I would get to them all eventually, I told myself — when I was idled or sick ...