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Today I am going to share with you etudes by Frederic Chopin. But I cannot talk about Chopin and not mention Schubert and Liszt. This discussion is a follow-up to previous articles I wrote about two Franzes – Franz Schubert ..
Lately I have found myself completely hooked on Franz Schubert (of all addictions, not the worst one to have). I’ve shared with you his: Impromptus No. 3 Death and the Maiden Fantasia and his (finished) Symphony No. 9. These ..
“The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention”. – Franz Schubert A few weeks ago my father, my daughter Hannah, and I went to the Boulder Symphony ..
Today I wanted to share Fantasie in F Minor by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Schubert lived a very short life: when he was 25 he contracted syphilis, and at the time syphilis was a treacherous, painful death sentence ..
“Think of a man whose health can never be restored, and who from sheer despair makes matters worse instead of better. Think, I say, of a man whose brightest hopes have come to nothing, to whom love and friendship are but torture, ..