The text of the Catholic Requiem Mass began to be sung to music as far back as the 9th century when Gregorian chant melodies which were  mon...

The complete title of Brahms' Requiem is A German Requiem, To Words of the Holy Scriptures, which gives an indication as to the non-tr...

Walpurgis night (Walpurgisnacht in German) is named after an 8th century English woman missionary St. Walpurga who traveled to the Germanic ...

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was fought between two major groups, the Republicans who were to the left politically, and the Nationals...

The works of Hector Berlioz that are most well known are works that display his flair for orchestral color such as the   Symphonie Fantast...

Born in Norway, Edvard Grieg was educated at the Leipzig Conservatory and steeped in the German tradition of serious music, but came to us...

After the successful premiere of his First Symphony in 1926, Dmitri Shostakovich was the darling of the Communist Government in Russia. Bu...