Mauro Giuliani began his music studies with the cello but soon discovered the guitar and mastered it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very popular in his native Italy where opera was all the rage. So he ...

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Abeo Quartet performs favorites of the string quartet repertoire on Thursday, June 13 at 7pm. In its debut Princeton Festival performance, the quartet presents Reena Esmail’sString Quartet “Ragamala,” ...

Mozart was doing pretty well in his first years in Vienna up to about 1785. He was famous and mostly financially comfortable (except that he was a big spender); the city was full of generous patrons ...