In 1871, Rimsky-Korsakov was offered the position of professor of composition and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory of Musi...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote very little chamber music, only eight pieces in all. An early string quartet and quintet for harp and string quartet...

Dvořák's String Quintet In E-flat Major was a product of his stay in the United States as the director of the National Conservatory of ...

Edward Elgar's father was a piano tuner, organist and professional grade violinist. His mother instilled in her son a love of nature a...

The death of his oldest daughter in 1855 affected the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana profoundly. She had shown great aptitude for music desp...

 Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, but in 1877 when he was 21 years old he chose to go to Amsterdam instead of Vienna. He became active ...

Franz Liszt and Chopin met each other in Paris about 1831, and they performed in concert together a few times. The two composers developed a...