Gustav Mahler was born in 1860 in what is now the Czech Republic. Wikipedia calls Mahler a “bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition” and...
Category - Classical
Classicalalmanac.com reports that on this day in 1922 a The New York Philharmonic concert was broadcast for the first time. The program was on WJZ and the...
The point of this website is to present music of all types, across the board. Whether I like a particular artist or song is secondary. I’ve chosen most...
It’s amazing how many great movies featured music composed by Bernard Herrmann. Here are some highlights: Citizen Kane; The Devil and Daniel Webster; The...
Frédéric François Chopin didn’t seem to have much fun. His story is reminiscent of Franz Schubert’s, which isn’t a good thing. This is the...
ClassicalNet explains the importance of Igor Stravinsky, who lived from 1882 to 1971: Russian/international composer who began two of the major strains of...
Johannes Brahms is grouped with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach as the “Three Bs.” (This is not to be confused with the 1982 Miami...
Bomb disposal may be the only vocation more terrifying than playing in a classical orchestra. Think about it: A rock musician plays a wrong note and, honestly...
Franz Schubert, according to profiles, lived a short life, spent most of it writing various forms of music of the day, got virtually no recognition and died of...
It must have been terrifying to be an artist in the Soviet Union during World War II. Classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich seems to have done the best he...
