A music blog written by Rich Brown
The biggest hole in my education is the knowledge of other languages, besides my native English. Seriously, it is a wide gaping expanse that you could drive a truck through. I know just enough Italian, German, French or Spanish to start a bar fight in some of the best pubs and cafes in Europe. My... Continue Reading →
One of the most well-known stories in all of music has to be the infamous exchange between Austrian Emperor Joseph II and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Emperor had just heard an opera by Mozart and complained, “That is too fine for my ears – there are too many notes.”. Mozart’s famous reply was, “There are... Continue Reading →
The Mozart Quintet for Piano and Wind instruments, K. 452, was premiered April 1, 1784 on one of Mozart’s subscription concerts in Vienna. This was in the middle of some of Wolfgang’s best years in Vienna, productive in composition, and financially successful in performance. In the early 1780’s Mozart wrote quite a few piano concertos... Continue Reading →
