The Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) introduced innovations which had a profound influence on the Viennese composers of the next generation and initiated significant trends in...
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A French-made piano that Frederic Chopin brought to London late in his life has been identified in a collection in England, the owner of the instrument said Wednesday.The piano built by the Paris c...
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Vienna (dpa) - French opera manager Dominique Meyer will head the
Vienna State Opera from 2010 onwards.
He will jointly lead Austria's foremost opera house with Aust...
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Vienna (dpa) - Austria Wednesday returned Edvard Munch's "Summer
Night at the Beach" to Marina Fistoulari-Mahler, granddaughter and
sole heir of Alma Mahler, wife of Austria...
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"I love the hot dogs here!" shouted Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel. With that unbridled enthusiasm, Dudamel made his official debut as the future music director of the Los Angeles Philharmoni...
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Classical music may be a last bastion of formality, but practically everyone at the New York Philharmonic calls its new music director just "Alan."Alan Gilbert, a 40-year-old native New Yorker, was...
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Shhhh! Mute the brass, and please _ go easy on the cymbals!A European Union directive on noise abatement contains a provision that will limit the "noise" of symphony orchestras beginning early next...
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Has classical music become hip? From the looks of this fall, some of the city’s most traditional venues will be competing with clubs for the downtown crow. Check out The Berlin in ...
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Ruth Yorkin Drazen was 69 when her husband Jerome died of prostate cancer. She thought she'd be terrified when he died, only to experience an entirely different emotion."It was his having a way out...
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Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart ... Korngold?Countless millions have at least heard of the classical masters associated with Vienna. Not only the titanic trio of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mo...
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Some years ago, Leonard Bernstein wrote that composing a symphony might have become impossible since its traditional inspiration-the idea of nobility-had all but vanished from our lives. In fact, t...
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Gustav Mahler
Frederic Chopin piano identified
