Haydn's Symphony No. 48 earned the nickname "Maria Theresa" because it was long believed to have been composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to Prince Esterházy's ...
Johannes Brahms said that inspiration for his Piano Quartet No. 3 in c-minor was the character of Werther from the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe which fictionalizes ...