This composition was based on Russian Orthodox liturgical themes found by Rimsky-Korsakov in an old book. His idea was to highlight the pag...

 Franz Liszt began planning the work as early as 1838 after he saw The Triumph Of Death fresco by Francesco Traini in the Campo Santo ...

The history of the term ballad begins with a type of French medieval narrative song which was generally danced to. Ballet derives from the ...

For any piece of music, there is only so much that can be notated on the page. It is of course the same way with language in a stage play. ...

Dvořák's String Quintet In E-flat Major was a product of his stay in the United States as the director of the National Conservatory of M...

  Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was a Czech composer best known for his nine symphonies, especially the 9th known as "From The New World...

When Charles Jennens gave his libretto of  Messiah to George Handel in 1741, he would have no idea that almost 300 years later the orato...