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French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz wrote his most famous work, Symphonie Fantastique, to win the affection of a woman. Describing the doom of the…
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"With its radiant orchestral colouring, striking ideas and clarity of form, the Fourth Symphony is perhaps the friendliest introduction to Bruckner's…
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Cuban-born Jorge Bolet was known for a restrained approach to Romantic masterpieces who was often disregarded by critics throughout his career as too much…
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“We are in the world of Mahler where musical references and symbolism play a role,” Thomas Dausgaard, guest conductor of the Seattle Symphony, says of…
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In 1824 composer Franz Schubert writes, in a letter to his friend, that he has “not written many new songs,” a claim that is just one example of how hard…
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Flemish composer Arthur Meulemans was inspired by his landscape in his "Fir Symphony" with movements named "Moonlit Night - summer haze hangs over the…