Charles Valentine Alkan's music reflects his remarkable virtuosity on the piano. His mastery of the piano was equal to one of the greate...

Aaron Copland spent a few years studying in Paris in the early 1920's with renown teacher Nadia Boulanger ,  a female teacher of highe...

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...

Mahler was most well-known in his lifetime as a conductor of opera and orchestral works. He did most of his compositional work on his su...

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...

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...