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Monday, February 14, 2022
A Mozart valentine
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On 4 August 1782 Mozart married Constanze Weber, despite serious opposition to the union from his father. On 3 April 1783 Mozart wrote to hi...
Monday, January 31, 2022
A Mozart pilgrimage
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[Ivory miniature of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his older sister Maria Anna Mozart (Nannerl) by Eusebius Johann Alphen c.1765] It's ...
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
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" Practice, practice, practice " comes the answer, in this well-known old joke. In the light of my own recent experience this adag...
Sunday, April 12, 2020
"La valse au petit chien": composers and their dogs
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Chopin... A year after their return to Paris following a trip to Majorca that had proved disastrous for Chopin's health, Chopin and ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Is it Chopin? A look at authenticity claims for a newly discovered photographic image
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On 8th June 1847 Chopin wrote home from Paris to his family in Warsaw: " Winterhalter, too, has made a small pencil drawing for my old...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
A random collection of music for my birthday
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In celebration of my birthday today here is a random collection of pieces I have written, chosen for no special reason, though it goes witho...
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