Did Brahms Kill Sibelius?

by | Jun 7, 2011 | Nuts and bolts

    Many knowledgeable musicians consider Schoenberg to be the musical successor of Brahms. Schoenberg himself thought so too. (You’ve got to hand it to Schoenberg- he managed to position himself pretty convincingly as the heir to both Brahms and Mahler,...

KW @ Everything but the Music Part II

by | Jun 5, 2011 | A view from the podium

Part II of my interview with Erick Klackner is now up on his fine blog, Everything but the Music. We talk about the Mozart-Haydn rivalry, but in not particularly serious terms, and he draws me in to offering something like a Desert Island Disc list. Here’s the...