A few years ago I purchased an inexpensive violin with the intent of learning to play it. Not expecting any kind of virtuosity, I thought ...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born in 1778 and died in 1837 and is acknowledged to be one of the composers of transition from the Classical mo...

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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 ...