Keys to Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony, written in 1888, is a work which arouses hugely divergent opinions....
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Keys to Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4
Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony ranks as one of the most popular symphonies ever written. It must...
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Keys to Music: Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
The Keys to Music podcast continues its survey of Beethoven’s music by exploring the Diabelli...
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Keys to Music: Beethoven's String Quartets
The Keys to Music podcast continues its survey of Beethoven's music with the string quartets....
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Keys to Music: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, Part 2
The Keys to Music podcast continues its survey of Beethoven's piano sonatas by looking at the...
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Keys to Music: Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, Part 1
Our survey of Beethoven's piano sonatas begins with the dazzling sonatas written when the...
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1785 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21
The Times newspaper is first published in London, Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal glasses, and...
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1725 and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Jonathan Swift completes Gulliver’s Travels, wallpaper and gin become popular in England, and...
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1570 and Tallis’ Spem in Alium
Ivan the Terrible commits the brutal Novgorod Massacre, the first atlas is published, and Thomas...
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1721 and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
Rifles are introduced to America by Swiss immigrants, snuff is rife amongst the European elite,...
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Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter, ‘allegory’ and ‘victim’ enter the English language, and...
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1788 and Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
The First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay, Robert Burns writes Auld Lang Syne, and Mozart composes...
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1791 and Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
The world’s first Sunday newspaper is published, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate is completed, and...
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1799 and Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata
George Washington suffers a bloody death, introduces the metric system, and Beethoven...
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1819 and Schubert’s Trout Quintet
The Industrial Revolution is in full swing in England, Singapore is developed as a trading post,...
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1824 and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
Charles Dickens is 12 years old, Emmanuel Kant sets out a manifesto for the Enlightenment, and...
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1859 and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species is published, as is the first self-help book, and...
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The telegraph is patented in the US, Queen Victoria takes the throne of England, and Chopin –...
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1878 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
The phonograph is patented, Stalin is born, and Tchaikovsky writes his Violin Concerto.
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1894 and Mahler’s Second Symphony
The first commercial film is shown, Oscar Wilde writes The Importance of Being Earnest, and...
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