Antonin Leopold Dvořák, according to Virginia Tech, was born in the village of Nelahozeves in Bohemian, which now is in the Czech Republic. Here is the...
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Both the music and the text of Peter and the Wolf, which was an effort to teach children about orchestras and instill a love of music, were written by Sergei...
Charles Ives, one of the most acknowledged of American composers, was demanding on performers because of his reliance on a wide variety of genres: Charles...
Van Cliburn, July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013 Pianist Van Cliburn won the inaugural 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. An American win at...
Here is the beginning of Claude Debussy’s profile at Encyclopedia Britannica: Claude Debussy, in full Achille-Claude Debussy (born August 22...
The Messiah, above — also known as The Hallelujah Chorus — is Handel’s best known composition and, indeed, one of the most popular classical...
The site io9 details how a computer house at the University of Málaga in Spain is creating classical music. The story links to a video of one of those pieces...
I shy away from writing posts about the classical greats like Beethoven because I know nothing about them or the music and am very likely to embarrass myself...
Above is Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Iván Fischer. Oszkár Ökrös plays the incredibly...
Here is AllMusic’s description of Mozart’s Flute Concerto No.2 In D Major, K.314: For nearly two hundred years, scholars believed Mozart’s...
