The cataclysm of World War One truly had a global effect while it was being fought and even more so after it was over. With tens of millions...

After having spent most of his adult life in the employ of  Prince Esterházy, Haydn made two trips toLondon beginning in 1791. London had al...

Unlike the childhoods of many composers in the early 19th century, Felix Mendelssohn had the good fortune of being born into a family of wea...

Statue of the young Mozart in London The inception of the symphony began at the end of the Baroque era, and due to the form being taken u...

The state of European music in the first half of the 18th century saw a tremendous change in styles and attitudes. At the beginning of the c...

Folk music is based on the pentatonic scale , a scale that consists of 5 notes to the octave instead of the usual 7. The usual 7-note C majo...

 The traditional number of symphonies attributed to Mozart is 41, but modern scholarship places the number closer to 68, as some of the ear...