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ob Neefe. During his first 22 years in Bonn, Beethoven intended to study with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and befriended Joseph Hayt. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 and began studying with Haydn, quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. In about i800 EFTA00

sic Beethoven is acknowledged as one of the giants of classical music; he is occasionally referred to as one of the "three Bs" (along with Bach and Brahms) who epitomise that tradition. He was also a pivotal figure in the transition from the 18th century musical classicism to 19th century romanticism,

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f modern classical music—Pieter Wispelwey (cello) and Dejan Lazic (piano)—perform sonatas by one of the great composers of the late Romantic era: Brahms. Featured here is his first cello sonata, as well as his Sonata for piano and cello in D-Major (originally composed for violin) and his Sonata for

e works, the Mahler songs excepted, that few audiences can have ever heard performed live. All four composers were colleagues in turn-of-the-century Vienna (a noted pedagogue, Fuchs in fact taught the other three), and Botstein brought them together in hopes that by showing us how they dealt with 1900f

t may make fascinating discussion topics but contain precious little musical interest. The Fuchs symphony is a case in point, a pallid imitation of Brahms, already ten years in his grave when this dreary exercise was written in 1907; if such works are still worth hearing at all, they should surely be s

Pozsony, Hungary (now, Bratislava — the capital city of the Slovak Republic). Hungarian and German by heritage, he received his musical training in Vienna, where he continued to live for most of his professional life. In addition to his excellence as a composer, Schmidt was widely praised for his skil

more of an obstacle to a lasting legacy, Schmidt's creative years overlapped with an impressive array of brilliant composers including Bruckner and Brahms early on, and then later, Mahler, Reger, Pfitzner, Schreker, Zemlinsky, Strauss, and many others. With such stiff competition from the nationalist

b Neefe. During his first 22 years in Bonn, Beethoven intended to study with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and befriended Joseph Hayt. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1992 and began studying with Haydn, quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. In about i800 his he

sic Beethoven is acknowledged as one of the giants of classical music; he is occasionally referred to as one of the "three Bs" (along with Bach and Brahms) who epitomise that tradition. He was also a pivotal figure in the transition from the 18th century musical classicism to igth century romanticism,