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Amy Beach ‘Piano Concerto in C# minor’: A Fearless Female Force

Amy Beach: Piano Concerto in C# Minor Context Amy Beach was born in 1867 in New Hampshire. It has been extensively documented that Beach was a child prodigy when it came to music performance. Records say that she was able to sing forty songs by the time she was one. Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago

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Sergei Rachmaninov ‘Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Variation 18’: A Heart-Warming Interlude

Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Variation 18) Context Sergei Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is a concertante work (a large-scale work which uses both the symphonic and concerto forms throughout). It was composed in 1934, and is scored for solo piano and a full Romantic Read more…

By Alex Burns, 5 years3 years ago