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Beethoven and Schubert -- each in his own way a tragic figure -- worked in the same city at the same time and produced some of the most significant bodies…

Haydn's Symphony No. 1 may or may not have actually been his first foray into this new musical form, but it nonetheless was a pioneering work, containing…

It must have been an uncomfortable moment when the judges at Moscow's 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition had to tell Nikita Khrushchev that an American…

In his short life, Franz Schubert produced a tremendous body of music of a quality that places him firmly among the great masters, very little of it…

We'll look at some 20th- and 21st-century American music this week. Can it tell us where music is headed in our century? No, you need a crystal ball for…

Hector Berlioz subtitled his Symphonie Fantastique "An Episode in the Life of an Artist."What sort of an artist is it who has drug-induced nightmares of…

He was the kid from Brooklyn who captured the vastness of the American scene in his music.He was the composer of some of our most iconic patriotic…

In 1837, piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set out to transcribe all nine Beethoven symphonies for his instrument. He nearly gave up, but after 13 years, he…

In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn embarked on a walking tour of Scotland, and found inspiration there for a symphony, among other works. Perfectionist that he…

We have a historic recording set for this Thursday, featuring one of the legendary musicians of the 20th century.Arthur Rubinstein performs the…