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  by  Emily E. Hogstad     October 23rd, 2017 On 27 May 1784,   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   bought a pet starling bird at a Viennese pet shop. Normally historians and musicologists don’t pay much attention to composers’ pets, but this starling wasn’t your average pet. Because when Mozart recorded the thirty-four kreutzer expense in his diary, he also transcribed a melody purportedly sung by his new bird. He included two versions: one that the bird sang (which included an out-of-place G-sharp), and another that was “cleaned up” for insertion into a piece of concert music. Eagle-eyed (or -eared!) listeners will immediately recognize this as the theme of the finale to Mozart’s seventeenth piano concerto, K453 . Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17    Believe it or not, this pet store purchase actually raises some serious musicological questions. Mozart wrote on the score that he completed the work April 12, and he wrote in his expense diary that he bought th...

  by  Janet Horvath    August 2nd, 2015 Marian Anderson (1897-1993) © philipcaruso-story.com/ With regal bearing and a voice of rich intrinsic beauty, contralto Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century but she had to struggle to overcome racial prejudice that was rampant during the time she was establishing her career. “I had become, whether I like it or not, a symbol, representing my people.” Singing for an audience of 75 thousand in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 and millions more via radio, as she had been denied an appearance in Washington’s Constitution Hall , she said, “Music chose me,” and with that she broke down some of the barriers that had plagued African American performers.   Marian Anderson’s performance © www.firstladies.org Anderson was born in 1887 in Philadelphia. Her father sold ice and coal. When Anderson’s father died suddenly, Marian’s mother, although trained as a schoolteacher, became a...

  Neil Sedaka , the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died. READ MORE: https://inqnews.net/neilsedaka All reactions: 218 You and 216 others

  by  Georg Predota    February 21st, 2026 The Austrian composer, pianist and teacher   Carl Czerny   (1791–1857) was one of the towering figures in the history of nineteenth-century pianism. He is probably best known for his extensive pedagogical works, such as his études and exercises. Yet, Czerny was more than just a teacher of technique. He was a visionary who understood the evolving demands of the piano and the pianist, helping to shape the very vocabulary of modern piano playing. The young Carl Czerny The predominant view of Czerny at the end of the 20 th  century as a pedagogue churning out a seemingly endless stream of uninspired works was circulated by  Robert Schumann . However, this cavalier dismissal of Czerny was not uniformly shared. Czerny was a musical bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras, most notably as a student of  Ludwig van Beethoven  and later as the teacher of  Franz Liszt . Beethoven considered Cze...