Click on the link below to hear the most current Moment in Music as an mp3 audio file - more clips will be added about every other week. Bach - Bach walks 500 miles. Bach - Bach's family grows...and so does his need for an income. Beethoven - Beethoven's childhood key-tickling was no laughing matter. Brahms - Brahms the babysitter? Brahms - Brahms knows how to make an exit. Brahms - Brahms pieces it together after 22 years. Brahms - Brahms invents a new way to use a necktie. Chopin - Chopin shows Liszt how it's done. Motzart - Mozart the magnificent multitasker. Motzart - The Pope rewards Mozart for stealing. Paganini - Nicolo Paganini just might have sold his soul to the devil. Respighi - When Ottorino Respighi falls asleep in a salad bowl, he makes sure his head points west. Rossini - Gioachino Rossini unknowingly writes the theme to the “Lone Ranger.” StraussJr - Johann Strauss Junior competes with Johann Strauss Senior. Schumann - Robert Schumann, mercury poisoning, and syphilis. Scumann - Robert Schumann battles his future father-in-law with the law. Scarlatti - Domenico Scarlatti tutors a future queen. Schubert - Oh, that's why it's Franz Schubert's “Unfinished Symphony.” Sibelius - Jean Sibelius writes an un-whistleable piece of music. Satie - What does Erik Satie need 200 umbrellas and twelve velvet suits for? Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky’s gets dumped by a woman he never met, but deeply loved. Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky writes a “worthless” piano concerto. Vivaldi - Blow your nose if you like Vivaldi. Albinoni - Tomaso Albinoni: a Venetian man of good breeding. Albinoni - Albinoni’s famous G minor Adagio. Barber - Samuel Barber writes the tune of American grief and depression. Mouret - Jean-Joseph Mouret lives on through Masterpiece Theater. Pachelbel - Pachelbel and his more than familiar piece of music. VanCliburn - Van Cliburn goes platinum. Handel - Handel was a sneaky little boy. Handel - Handel gets “suite” forgiveness from a king. Haydn - Haydn is free to roam. Haydn - A miracle at Haydn’s 102 symphony. Haydn - Princes have difficulty leaving Haydn’s concerts. Mozart - Mozart certainly was precocious.
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