The immense popularity of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto in B-flat minor has caused his other two concertos to be somewhat overlooked. Th...

Musicians in Bach's era were treated much as any other servant by many of the royals that employed them.  So it was inevitable that a mu...

The last months of Franz Schubert's life were times of great physical illness matched with great musical creativity. But for most of his...

The Serenade in Mozart's time was a multi-movement work that could be written for any combination of instruments, although the majorit...

After a performance 1833 of his Symphonie Fantastique  and other works, Hector Berlioz was approached by Nicolo Paganini with a request t...

Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)  began to compose Symphonie Fantastique, An Episode in The Life Of An Artist, In Five Parts  in 1827 after he...

A composer's first symphony is always special. Beethoven's 1st with its mystic introduction, Brahms 1st with it's rugged beg...