It's the 190th anniversary of the birth of Johannes Brahms, born in Hamburg on May 7, 1833. This portrait by Hadi Karimi shows Brahms as he appeared in about 1860, based on existing photographs.1yr ⋅ Die_Horen ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy birthday Fanny Mendelssohn! Can you name a piece by her or another female composer?2yr ⋅ depressedclassical ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Is this video still up anywhere? Maybe the picture doesn't help, but it's an Erlkonig animation that I really liked and wanted to rewatch it, but it's no longer on YT1yr ⋅ Fethmus_Mioma ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Tchaikovsky at Cambridge University, wearing doctoral robes. June, 1893. One of the last photos of Pyotr.4yr ⋅ IdomeneoReDiCreta ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Austrian composer Franz Schubert died on November 19th in 1828. he only got 31 years old but wrote more than 600 songs.3yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Which pieces led you to an obsession with classical music? These were mine, roughly in order according to journal entries:2yr ⋅ uclasux ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy birthday Sergei Rachmaninoff! Here photographed working on his 3rd piano concerto.4yr ⋅ Dvorak_fan69 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy birthday Schubert! What is everyone's favorite composition of his?1yr ⋅ rockemonandoff ⋅ r/classicalmusic
My teacher cleaning out his locker after the Baltimore Symphony cancelled their summer season :(5yr ⋅ DatSweetBioWareMusic ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Rostropovich, Oistrakh, Britten, and Shostakovich together. Does anyone know the story behind this photo?1yr ⋅ ImAWizards ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Final encore bow of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann following Beethoven's 9th Symphony on Sunday evening. It was a mesmerizing performance.1yr ⋅ PianoMike74 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On July 16th in 1989 Herbert von Karajan passed away. Probably the most famous maestro ever.3yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy 177th Birthday to Edvard Grieg! 10 Grieg facts in the comments:4yr ⋅ The_American_Skald ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Writing down a Mozart violin sonata in D. It’s my way of “analyzing” the music.3yr ⋅ IdomeneoReDiCreta ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Found these beauties in a big box of old sheet music my mom bought!2yr ⋅ _Under_score_96 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
My excitement is building...the countdown begins for Mahler 7!1yr ⋅ whatafuckinusername ⋅ r/classicalmusic
An incredible story about forgetting your solo. Has this ever happened to you?2yr ⋅ mazdayasna ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Today is Siblings Day! Mozart’s sister, Maria Anna, was a child prodigy and later known as “the most eminent soloist” in Salzburg. Joseph Haydn's brother, Michael, was a highly influential composer of sacred music. Maria Anna and Michael are buried together in Salzburg.3yr ⋅ WienerKlassik ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Composer Joseph Haydn was born March 31st/April 1st in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria.1yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Just got my first ever Violin I’m so excited, I’ve always had a passion for music and thought it was always beautiful now I can finally hone that passion, can’t wait to put in the endless hours and be the best I can.3yr ⋅ gcclv ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Fun fact about John Mackey and Eric Whitacre, via the latter's Twitter1yr ⋅ ConspicuousBassoon ⋅ r/classicalmusic
115 years ago, on September 25th in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovich was born2yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Bronze cast of Chopin's left hand made in October 1849 by sculptor Auguste Clesinger. In collection of Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland.1yr ⋅ Snoo_90160 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
[OC] My portrait painting of violinist Hilary Hahn. Watercolor+Digital3yr ⋅ cemaltibas ⋅ r/classicalmusic
A composer friend [Redacted] made some very insightful observations on gatekeeping and snobbery in classical music (from a post about Einaudi's music)3yr ⋅ tjbassoon ⋅ r/classicalmusic
My girlfriend made this for me for my birthday. I think she’s the one9mo ⋅ grizzlycitizen ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Wendy Carlos “Switched-On Bach” (1968). Performed on Moog Synthesizer, it was a top-10 charting album and certified platinum (USA)2yr ⋅ McIntoshPlus95 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On Nov. 9th 1835, Clara Wieck-Schumann premiered her Piano Concerto in Leipzig with Mendelssohn conducting— she was only 16 yrs old.1yr ⋅ sarahfritzwritr ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Listening to the incredible voice of Maria Callas. She passed away 44 years ago.2yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Look at her expression! She is truly treasuring this moment5yr ⋅ eugene_christophe ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Here are the results of the numerous polls I listed about 2 weeks ago. 823 votes were submitted in total. Thank you to all who participated!2yr ⋅ troopie91 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy Birthday to Joseph Maurice Ravel, the painter who merged both glorious stars and acute pain into ecstatic, beautiful, magical music!1yr ⋅ thePian0Star ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On March 25th in 1881 composer Bela Bartok was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklos in the Kingdom of Hungary.1yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Found this on IG and had to share—an onigiri (Japanese riceball) of our boy Chopin!2yr ⋅ echorrhea ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Maxim Shostakovich on encountering a German prisoner of war in the early 1940s (Source: Mikhail Ardov's Memories of Shostakovich)2yr ⋅ TchaikenNugget ⋅ r/classicalmusic
I focused on Gustav Mahler sites during one of my long lockdown walks around Vienna.3yr ⋅ WienerKlassik ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy Birthday to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer of Schacherkheaezadde4yr ⋅ InnaTsv ⋅ r/classicalmusic
The movement 'Et Incarnatus Est' from Bach's B minor Mass, BWV 232, written in 1749.3yr ⋅ uncommoncommoner ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Benjamin Britten walking with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Britten's 'Jubilate', was commissioned by the Duke, and was also performed at his funeral yesterday (link in comments).3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy birthday to two of the 20th century’s most productive composers. Johannes Brahms was born May 7th 1833 and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born 7 years later, in 1840. Tchaikovsky described Brahms as a ‘giftless bastard’, the first time they met.4yr ⋅ 32Goldberg32 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
A caricature, which was distributed in Vienna and Leipzig, mocking Mahler for using a sledgehammer in his Sixth Symphony. The bottom sentence reads - My god, I forgot the car horn! Now I can write another symphony, criticizing Mahler's obsession with unusual instruments and large orchestras.2yr ⋅ COOL_GEEK_010506 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
the Philadelphia orchestra with Leopold Stowski in 1916, performing the United Ststes premier of Mahler's 8th symphony1yr ⋅ Beatsaberplayer20 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Baude Cordier’s “Rondeau Upon a Heart” and “Circle Cannon” composed before 14401yr ⋅ Zewen_Sensei ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Franz Liszt at the Piano, black chalk and ink on paper by Sir Hubert von Herkomer (circa 1904)5yr ⋅ SuperBreakfast ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Results of the Large Scale Composer Poll (Chart 1 - Unweighted / Raw Count)1yr ⋅ troopie91 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Portrait of Richard Wagner - painted by my father Norman Parker in 1973.3yr ⋅ favouritewaiter ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On November 19th in 1828 Franz Schubert passed away, he only reached 31 years.2yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Sir Simon Rattle, born January 19th, 1955. happy birthday, Maestro!2yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On May 7th in 1833 composer, pianist and conductor Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany.1yr ⋅ Krokodrillo ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Why does Wikipedia gotta do Tchaikovsky like that? First Sentence in this article2yr ⋅ purpleguitar1984 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
The picture taken before the performance of Mahler's 3rd Symphony - my favorite composer, it was exceptional and emotional.2yr ⋅ Beast667Neighbour ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Today is Dutch musicologist Anthony van Hoboken's 135th birthday. He is the guy who catalogued all of Haydn's works.2yr ⋅ CanadianW ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Statue of Tchaikovsky in the garden of his last house in Klin, Russia5yr ⋅ SuperBreakfast ⋅ r/classicalmusic
What’s the cringiest Tchaikovsky 6 wrong clap moment you’ve experienced? Someone clapped and shouted BRAVO after the 3rd mvt tonight 😬1yr ⋅ Disneypenguin ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Got an idea to paint up a 1 dollar Mozart bust I ordered online.3yr ⋅ weibuweibuuu ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer was born on this day (1895)1yr ⋅ Snoo-45586 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
I came across a movie about Liszt called lisztomania and it is wild lmao3yr ⋅ zeb236 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Happy 163rd birthday to Sir Edward William Elgar! You know the drill !!4yr ⋅ djgreen4 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Rest in peace legendary parodist composer Peter Schickele, age 883mo ⋅ Zewen_Sensei ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Mendelssohn’s apartment in Leipzig, where he worked before his death. You can see two busts, one of Goethe, and another of J.S. Bach.4yr ⋅ IdomeneoReDiCreta ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Russians in Kamchatka are learning to play the piano in a forest overlooking the ocean2yr ⋅ Osmxnxn ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Francisco Tarrega, Spanish composer and guitar artist was born today (1852)1yr ⋅ Snoo-45586 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (seated together on the left) in 1908 [Colorized]3yr ⋅ Zewen_Senpai ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Sting playing in the horn section at Utah Symphony during a recent rehearsal for the Zion National Park’s 100th Anniversary Concert5yr ⋅ yayyemen ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Bach’s handwriting is a form of art in itself. It’s no surprise that from someone who’s music is so intricate, and almost like a science of aesthetics and psychology, that the physical representation of it would rival the sound.3yr ⋅ pavchen ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Which classical work makes you feel like this? (Also this is a reccomebdation request lol)2yr ⋅ Gymnopedist_01 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
I work in the archives of my conservatory and we often get donations. Today we received two boxes of first edition scores by Bach, Mozart, Strauss, and more. So freaking cool.5yr ⋅ mdillon19690 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On Tuesday I went to see Garrick Ohlsson in Brahms’ second piano concerto at the Dvorak Hall in Prague.1yr ⋅ ferenczeit ⋅ r/classicalmusic
