Johann Goethe was a writer that inspired the entire 19th century world of art, specifically the Germanic-speaking world.  Franz Schubert fel...

Claude Debussy has been identified with Impressionism , exemplified by the paintings of Renoir and Monet among others. Debussy himself disli...

Antonín Dvořák's music didn't become known outside of his native Bohemia until he entered and won the Austrian State Prize contest...

Chopin was not suited to a life of a performing virtuoso such as Liszt, not least of all on account of his health. He had been sickly as a...

Despite Saint-Saëns being somewhat of an innovator early in his career (he introduced the symphonic poem to France), his aesthetic sense al...

Although Brahms is thought of as a composer of absolute music, that is music that is written for its own sake without having to be inspire...

The music of Beethoven changed the art of music forever. His music was revolutionary in his use and development of sonata form, the symphony...