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...

 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was born in 1644 in Wartenberg, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) He is historically recognized as an Bohemian...

In many ways Hector Berlioz was unique among the 19th century classical composers. He was not a child prodigy and only began his musical st...

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 ...

Charles Ives, 1889 Charles Ives was born in 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut. His father George Ives was a U.S. Army bandleader in the Civil...