Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...

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Brahms does Haydn: Pianist Emmanuel Ax and conductor Robert Spano had an interesting idea for a concert program. They decided to perform both the two piano version, and the orchestral version of ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting October 7th, 2007 - Buy Brahms Academic Festival Tragic Overtures Variations on a Theme by HaydnSerenade No 2 DVD ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

Before he died at 77, Franz Joseph Haydn composed more than 500 works, including at least 104 symphonies. Last week the Haydn Society, which has been busying itself preparing a catalogue of Haydn ...

Between 1981 and 1984 Leonard Bernstein recorded nearly all of Brahms orchestral works with the Wiener Philharmoniker to honour the 150th anniversary of the composers birth in 1983 For the concertos ...