As Told By Witold

          For many concert-goers the music of Polish composer, Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), is much less familiar than that of some of his more frequently programmed, Western contemporaries, [...]

          Following his move to Vienna in 1781, Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791) achieved both musical and financial success. His opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio (1782), was very well-received, [...]

          Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) is best known for his orchestral masterpiece Symphonie Fantastique (1830), which is known to be a work of profoundly autobiographical nature, in part due to a [...]

          Though he never traveled to Spain, some of Wolfgang Mozart’s most famous operas are set there, such as Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. His symphonies, however, derive their [...]

         There is an old saw in music that the best Spanish music has been written by French composers. As initially insulting as that might sound, it is hard to argue that there isn’t a lot of [...]