The UK-based Doric String Quartet has big plans for the 2027 Beethoven Year. They will bring Beethoven’s string quartets across Europe, including the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. The third volume of their Beethoven album is out this September. In the past,
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Did Mozart actually write his Sinfonia Concertante for winds? Scholars remain divided: Alfred Einstein thought it genuine, Donald Tovey thought it inept. The original score vanished under suspicious circumstances in 1778. Uncover the full detective story and listen to a 1957 recording here.
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The symphony began as a kind of warm-up act – a short instrumental piece played before a larger work, meant to settle a restless audience. Over the next two centuries, composers turned that warm-up act into one of classical music’s
