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Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor known as The Revolutionary Étude, is a solo piano work by Frédéric Chopin written circa 1831. It is the 12th of his first set of etudes – “Douze Grandes Etudes” dedicated to “son ami Franz Liszt” (his friend Franz Liszt). The [...]

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Bizet – Toréador Song – “Carmen” (1875)
I got this song when I was in college in Beijing, and it’s been in my computer/portable disk ever since. This fantastic rendition sounds like a more modern version of the song, although I do not have more detailed information about the [...]

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Waltz of the Flowers – “The Nutcracker” (1892)
Adapted from Wikipedia:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893), often called Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky in English, was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. As his style developed, Tchaikovsky wrote music across a range of genres, including symphony, opera, [...]

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Mozart: Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major – Allegro (1787)
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The short bio and intro to the Serenade are adapted from Wikipedia.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, [...]