Evening Masterwork

The Third Violin Concerto by Saint-Saens is the final violin concerto that the composer would write, and it stands out among the other concertos by the composer because it returns to a more traditional format.

Manuel De Falla composed his work for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, during the First World War, but the conception of the piece took place earlier during a stay in France.

Dvorak once complained that the cello was “nasal-like” at the top of its range and “mumbles” at the bottom.

Erich Korngold spent much of his life composing for film, so it’s no surprise that many of his concert works are influenced by his film scores.

No one really knows why Franz Schubert subtitled his Fourth Symphony “tragic".

Composer Amy Beach once remarked that a piece of music could be “a veritable autobiography” for a composer, and this is certainly the case with her Piano Concerto in c-sharp minor.

While many regard Carl Nielsen as a composer “born to write symphonies,” he had quite a bit of difficulty when it came to producing his Fifth Symphony.