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The violin sheet music for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" is seen during the premiere concert of the Classical concert series "Open Air Klassiksommer" organized by Berliner ...
Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year ... (One needs to cut them slack.) In general, however, the music could have used more vitality, more crispness, more élan. In ...
A section of music manuscript handwritten by a ... strings and a single violin - to be played by himself. Mozart named the Serenade ‘Antretter’ after family friend, Thadda Simon Antretter ...
The instrument that Mozart used to perform his own concerts! And professional musicians got the same thrill at the Boston Early Music Festival. For safety's sake, the violin and viola were flown ...
It turned out to be sheet music for six short sonatas printed in 1765 when Mozart was visiting London ... for piano and violin, was a rare second printing of a first edition and that only one ...
The solo literature (however affecting) is discouragingly small compared with the violin ... summer 1779. Mozart was about to set off from Salzburg to the Austrian and classical music capital ...
(And how's this for historic continuity? Hahn first studied the Mozart with her beloved teacher at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Jascha Brodsky, who in turn studied with the legendary ...
It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos ... evidently losing interest in the violin as a solo instrument. But they contain much delightful music, particularly No 4 and the ever-surprising ...
Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the ...