Beethoven’s Early String Quartets. Part 1
The music Beethoven wrote during his first few years in Vienna shows a young man first learning the basics of …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The selling of Gounod’s Faust
Who can think of Charles Gounod without thinking of Faust, one of the most successful operas of the entire nineteenth …Read the Rest
Slonimsky scorecard: Aaron Copland
Little by little, I plan to look at composers who were still living at the time Nicolas Slonimsky published bad …Read the Rest
Schnabel the mathematician
Have you ever heard people at a restaurant trying to figure out how much each owes when they couldn’t get …Read the Rest
10 quotations by jazz masters
No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it’s great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level …Read the Rest
Beethoven and musical invective
Perhaps not every classical music lover considers Beethoven the greatest composer in history, but I’m sure everyone puts him among …Read the Rest
When Beethoven’s Fifth was new: thoughts on newer new music
During my lifetime, American audiences have stayed away in droves if they know their orchestra is playing a new piece. …Read the Rest
Louis Moreau Gottschalk and thirteen and a half pianists
American pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk grew up in New Orleans and made such an excellent reputation there that …Read the Rest
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