Bachtrack top ten: Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria von Weber, portrait by Ferdinand Schimon (1825)

By Mark Pullinger, 04 June 2026

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“its wild and captivating fragrance intoxicated me”

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.