Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss 50 pieces that changed the course of music history.

That’s how US conductor JoAnn Falletta describes the man she characterises as one of ‘the most important French composers.’ But who is she talking about – Debussy? Ravel? Fauré?

T here were great cinema composers before John Williams and there will be great composers after him. And yet, through his seven-decade career, he towers over everyone else. His music is not only ...

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

A new collection of original classical music by underrecognized women composers, some pieces “waiting over a century to be ...

MATAWAN – There is a fun scene in the newly released independent movie “Christmas Cowboy” where the protagonist goes ...

Katharina Wagner, the great-granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner, is in city to announce a three-year residency project with Shanghai Grand Theater. Three of Wagner's operas, as well as ...

Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts... Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. 46, No. 1, Oct., 1992 Jazz and Composition: The Many Sides of ... Jazz and Composition: The Many ...

Content: Many Themes, Many Dimensions | Lutosławski | Penderecki | Górecki | The "Polish Composers' School" Syndrome | Bargielski | Emigrants | Polish Minimalists: Tomasz Sikorski and Zygmunt Krauze | ...

The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso. Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance. Chopin is also among the outstanding ...