There’s an inherent ambiguity in the word “classical.” It can mean classical music in general, and it can mean music of the classical era, which is the surprisingly short period between about 1770 and ...

“Quasi Minuetto” — “sort of a minuet”. Why “quasi” rather than simply “Minuetto”? Because by the time Brahms came to write this piece, somewhere between 1866 and 1873, the dainty triple-time dance ...