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5 itemsBrahms x Symphony No. 2
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While much has been written about the pressure Brahms felt to compose a symphony – no doubt exacerbated by Robert Schumann comparing him directly to Beethoven – once Brahms released his Symphony No. 1, the Second was completed within a year of the First. In a letter to his publisher, Franz Simroc...
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Wagner x Overture to Tannhaüser
Richard Wagner’s influence extended far beyond music. Writers, philosophers, other musicians and artists of all persuasions fell under his sway well into the 20th century. A slim but incisive book, Aspects of Wagner by Bryan Magee (1969), is worthy of attention a half-century after its publicatio...
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5 itemsBeethoven x Symphony No. 3
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6 itemsBerlioz x Symphonie Fantastique
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In 1830, Hector Berlioz became quite a name in Paris, though one would be hard-pressed to choose which adjective would best describe him: “famous” or “notorious.” His hallucinatory Symphonie Fantastique put him on the musical map, but his obsessive courtship (today it would be called “stalking”) ...
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Saint-Saëns x Carnival of the Animals
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