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# **Geza Anda and Clara Haskil **

# Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) with Johann Strauss (1825-1899)

# **Wagner as Man & Artist by Ernest Newman ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/wagner-as-man-artist-by-ernest-newman/](https://classicalarchive.org/wagner-as-man-artist-by-ernest-newman/)** ** Ernest Newman’s *Wagner as Man & Artist* (first published **1914**) is one of the **most important and intellectually serious…

# **Verdi: Man and Musician – His Biography by Frederick James Crowest** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/verdi-man-and-musician-his-biography-by-frederick-james-crowest/](https://classicalarchive.org/verdi-man-and-musician-his-biography-by-frederick-james-crowest/) Frederick James Crowest’s *Verdi: Man and Musician* is one of the **earliest English-language biographies of Giuseppe Verdi**, first…

# **Puccini – His Life and Works – Julian Budden ** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/puccini-his-life-and-works-julian-budden/](https://classicalarchive.org/puccini-his-life-and-works-julian-budden/)** ** Julian Budden’s *Puccini – His Life and Works* is widely regarded as **the most authoritative, balanced, and musically…

**Wilhelm Furtwangler in 1908.** In this photograph, Furtwangler is a dead ringer for the young Samuel Clemens.** Furtwangler was 22 years old in 1908**, and working as a repetiteur at the Court Opera in…

# Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) German composer and pianist photographed in Vienna, Austria, c. 1895 with Adele Strauss, wife of composer Johann Strauss.

# **Robert Schumann **

# AI Composition from original : Clara Schumann with daughter

# **Clara Schumann **

# **Clara Schumann **

# Brahms with a group of gentlemen after the funeral of Clara Schumann, circa 1896

# Sergei Rachmaninov and Arturo Toscanini, Lucerne, 1939.

# **Yehudy Menuhin , Arthur Grumiaux, David Oistrakh**

# **1910: Trio Cortot**

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (2) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **The Viennese Shock of 1773: K. 168–173 and the Encounter with Haydn** Judging by numbering and chronology,…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (1) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **When Mozart Wrote His First String Quartet** When Mozart composed his first string “quartet” (K. 80)—during his…

# **The Life and Works of Beethoven, narrated by Jeremy Siepmann - Naxos Books ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/life-and-works-149322691?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/life-and-works-149322691?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Mozart’s Tonal Circle: Restraint as a Quiet Revolution (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **Impossible—yet precisely here Mozart’s revolutionary nature reveals itself**, even though **he never advertises it** and **never…

# **Archipel Digital Remastered 3 ** **ARPCD0369** **Pergolesi** – Stabat Mater – **Mario Rossi** **ARPCD0370** **Bruno Walter** to The Memory of **Arturo Toscanini** **ARPCD0371** **Beethoven** – Symphony No. 3, Leonore Overture No. 3 –…

# **Mozart and Counterpoint (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) What time and environment could offer him was **no longer genuinely living polyphony**, but rather **a survival—something rigid, petrified, a textbook…

# **Fragments and the Creative Process (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) Mozart’s habitual—indeed almost instinctive—use of a compositional “springboard” can explain why **so many fragments and opening sketches** have survived.…