Vienna: City of Dreams

Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout discusses the fortepiano, its evolution, and how the sound of the instrument influenc... Read more

Brahms came late to the symphony, finishing his first at the age of 42 after 14 years of rumination. He knew that compos... Read more

For fans of lurid operatic drama, Wozzeck (1914–1922) is one of the greatest stage works of the 20th century. Students o... Read more

In 1921, Schoenberg confided to a student that he had made a discovery that would “insure the supremacy of German music ... Read more

The beginning of the modernist movement was marked by the publication of such perverse, sensual novels as Oscar Wilde’s ... Read more

Schoenberg composed Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) in three weeks in September 1899. He originally wrote it for st... Read more

Mahler completed his Fourth Symphony in April 1901 and conducted the premiere himself that November in Munich. Its inspi... Read more

Hans Pfitzner’s oft-repeated assertion that Bruckner composed the same symphony nine times is as inaccurate as it is mea... Read more

The Ninth Symphony may be one of the most familiar and beloved works in the entire classical canon, but it is worth reme... Read more

Schubert wrote more than 600 songs on texts by some 150 poets. More astonishing than his prodigious productivity was his... Read more