Say the name Paganini to a modern music lover and the first impression would most likely be of a virtuoso violinist dazzling the the early...

During the Soviet reign of Russia, many composers and other artists got into trouble with the authorities because they refused to kow-tow ...

The full title of Liszt's work is A Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy.   Liszt began sketching themes for this work as early as 18...

Respighi was a musicologist as well as a composer, and he used the music of the past as inspiration for some of his compositions. The Bi...

Composers have always been the leading force in music as far as innovation of techniques and improvements in instruments. That is not to d...

The modern orchestral horn had as its ancestor the valveless 'natural' horn that was used in the military and in hunting to signal...

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was a Dutch organist and composer. His father was also an organist. The family moved to Amsterdam sh...