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A Violin solo with Piano Accompaniment composed by Johannes Brahms.

Rudolf Serkin was a virtuoso solo performer, who like Heifitz & Horowitz, made Eruopean classical music an important part of American middle class culture in the 1920s. This is the first biography of Serkin & it concerntrates on the unfolding of his career in the United States.

On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought

Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music analysis. It outlines a process of analyzing works in the Classical tradition by uncovering the construction of a piece of music—the formal, harmonic, rhythmic, and voice-leading organizations—as well

First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.