The world of 18th century opera was a markedly different environment in many ways than the modern day opera house. With no copyright protect...

As a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment, artists of the late 18th century began to create works that were reflections of their ideals of...

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...