Étienne Méhul was a French composer at the time of the French Revolution and Napoleon. He was well-known in his time as an opera composer,...

Paganini began making his reputation as early as 1813 before he toured Europe. His reputation was made in tours of his native country of I...

Alkan's Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs (Twelve Studies in all the minor keys), Op. 39 for solo piano were published in 1857. ...

 From the years 1812 to 1822 Gioachino Rossini wrote thirty operas, or the average of three every year for ten years. These works were his m...

Ragtime music still has a following and popularity after over 100 years. It was a bona fide sensation after the 1893 World's Columbian E...

 Joseph Haydn's name as a composer was known even before he was semi-retired and living in Vienna.With his six symphonies written for th...

The beginnings of Haydn's motet  Insanae et vanae curae (Insane and stupid worries flood our mind) began in 1775 with the composition ...