Music can be looked at as belonging to one of two broad categories; absolute music or program music. Absolute music is music that has no ap...

Among the teachers Beethoven studied with early on was Joseph Haydn. Beethoven took counterpoint lessons with Haydn but the relationship ...

Franz Liszt wrote his  Grosses Konzertsolo (Grand Concerto Solo) in 1849-1850, three years before his  Sonata In B Minor.    Liszt wrote i...

Alexander Dreyschock was born in Bohemia in 1818 and became one of the era's top virtuoso pianists. By the time he was 20 years old he ...

Saint-Saëns is a composer accused by some of superficiality and glibness, but the second piano trio shows the criticism to be unjust.   Gone...

The career of many composers is a long road of constant growth, sometimes small, sometimes large, even sometimes a complete change in style...

The Catholic religious rite of the Mass is basic to the faith, and takes many forms. The most basic is a Mass that contains the reading of s...