Symphony Salon

Hello all, It will help if you have read the post: Significance of the number nineteen We are looking for the dynamic symmetry in JS Bach...

The number nineteen is a favorite number used by Bach. I will be using analyses of the number 19 in Bach and Beethoven. So first, here are...

Artur Schnabel: "You may find this hard to believe, but Igor Stravinsky has actually published in the papers the statement, 'Music,...

by Andrew Clements Friday January 12, 2001 The Guardian Don Juan was the work that made the 25-year-old Richard Strauss a star when it was f...

Tchaikovsky wrote this: Letter to Mme von Meck, Clarens, March 5 (17), 1878 You ask how I manage my instrumentation. I never compose in the ...

From a letter to Semyon Kruglikov, November 9, 1880 Nikolai Andreyevitch Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908) wrote: One can learn by oneself; someti...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), an outstanding and leading figure in the music of Russia, an eminent master of orchestral expression, a...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) is generally regarded by historians as the founder of the Romantic school of musical expression; and he wa...

Although the leading figures of the Enlightenment were all men, the social context was the highly-civilized "salon", usually presi...

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I have profound respect for Bruckner's work. Bruckner's deeply meditative music poses a challenge to listeners. The nine symphonies,...

Andrew Clements Friday May 12, 2000 The Guardian Ever since Walt Disney's Fantasia in 1940, Paul Dukas's Symphonic Scherzo after Goe...

Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth, and last, Symphony (Op.74 in B minor) in 1893, very shortly before his sudden death. He himself called it the P...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Christopher Cook are presenting a portrait concert of Osvaldo Golijov which will feature four premieres of th...

With Mozart celebrations bubbling up everywhere, we should pause to remember that Schumann died 150 years ago, 1856. Please check out Schuma...

February 9, 2006 New York Times By DANIEL J. WAKIN The New York Philharmonic, not known for its quick-stepping ways, is entering the new wor...

By Philip Kennicott Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 3, 2006; C01 "It's not drudgery," says Dick, one of the larg...

An RSCPA rescue centre has installed a £2,000 sound system to play soothing classical music to stressed dogs. Staff at the kennels in West H...

The Classical Musician has just suffered another calamity. Andante.com, a web site whose stated goal was to be the leading classical music s...