Betsy Schwarm
Betsy Schwarm
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BIOGRAPHY

Betsy Schwarm is a music historian based in Colorado. She serves on the music faculty of Metropolitan State University of Denver and gives pre-performance talks for Opera Colorado and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She also has a dozen years’ experience as a classical radio announcer/producer, through which she honed her music writing style to balance the interests of music professionals and the needs of casual listeners. Ms. Schwarm writes classical program notes for various organizations around the world. The domestic portion of that list includes the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Mainly Mozart of San Diego, and the Huntsville Symphony, as well as Encyclopaedia Britannica.

In addition to many hundreds of published articles on classical music, Ms. Schwarm has published two books intended to make classical music accessible for the general listener, Classical Music Insights and Operatic Insights.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata, solo piano work by Ludwig van Beethoven, admired particularly for its mysterious, gently arpeggiated, and seemingly improvised first movement. The piece was completed in 1801, published the following year, and premiered by the composer himself, whose hearing was still adequate but…
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