Rossini wrote the opera Semiramide in 1823.  The libretto was based on a tragedy by Voltaire which in turn was based on a Babylonian myth....

Richard Strauss was born into a very musical family. His father Franz Strauss was a virtuoso horn player and the principle horn of the Mun...

Variations on a theme are a standard form for many classical works, and most composers have used the form and all composers have used the ...

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains.  There he enjoyed his spiri...

Heinrich Schütz (1585 – 1672) was an important early German composer. He composed what is thought to be the first German opera that was pe...

From radio stations playing 'golden oldies' to the museum-like quality of the classical music concert hall, the modern day musical...

Robert Schumann was a multi-talented man who was not only a fine composer and pianist, but a writer and poet as well. He began studying la...