Prometheus is an ancient Greek myth that had its first telling as early as the 8th century BC.  In short, the myth of Prometheus  tells o...

Cab Calloway was an American original,  a versatile musician, singer and entertainer that saw his greatest popularity in the 1930's an...

Bruckner was a composer that formally studied his craft of music until he was forty years old. He had already composed a considerable numb...

The history of Finland has seen the country dominated by Sweden early on and Russia in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.  With the...

What identifies the genre of a classical music piece is not always dependent on the number of performers. For example, concertos for solo ...

Like most of the compositions Cesar Franck wrote in the last decade of his life, the Symphonic Variations were coldly received.  It was...

The musical world of J.S. Bach was one of transition.  The emphasis had been slowly changing from counterpoint and polyphony to harmonic...