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Originally titled Lament, the Lyric for Strings was first composed as the second movement of Walker's String Quartet No. 1 in 1946 while he was a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read more →
This symphony was written in 1793 in Vienna in anticipation of Haydn's second trip to London. Read more →
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for the Cambridge Greek Play production of Aristophanes' The Wasps at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams' first of only three forays into incidental music. Read more →
The composer dedicated the concerto to Natalie Ouchkoff, his fiancé, whom he married the year of the composition's premiere. The work's production came at a time of little repertoire for the double bass, which was often considered as an instrument only for ensembles. Read more →