In the European musical world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, most composers had to rely on employment in the church or a royal...

The first symphony of Brahms, by his own admission, took 21 years to complete from initial sketches in 1855 to finishing touches in 1876 whe...

The identification of works in classical music can be a problem for the casual listener. What key the work is in can help, but the most pr...

Erik Satie was an eccentric French avant-garde composer of the late 19th-early 20th century whose music influenced many composers.  He didn...

Franz Schubert lived but 31 years, with most of those years being absorbed with composition. His total number of known works is over 1,500 a...

In the court and church appointments that Johann Sebastian Bach had throughout his life, he was not only required to compose and lead the mu...

François Benoist was the professor of organ at the Conservatoire de Paris for fifty years and many of France's finest musicians studied ...