Although not a cellist,  Julius Röntgen, had a love affair with the instrument that lasted over 60 years of his life. He wrote 14 sonatas fo...

By the time Dmitri Shostakovich began writing his 2nd Piano Concerto in 1957 he had lived an artistic  life full of official censure and cri...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was a German composer who spent time in Italy before finally settling in England.   He was a virtuoso pe...

Beethoven's career took a different turn after the occupation of Vienna by Napoleon in 1805 and 1809. The stress caused by the occupati...

The truth about Tchaikovsky's secret has been long known to the world since his death. The fact that he was homosexual at a time and ...

When Beethoven came to Vienna in 1792 he began to make a name for himself with his piano playing.  He made the rounds of the elite salons i...

Rimsky-Korsakov composed three brilliantly orchestrated works in 1887-1888; Scheherazade , Russian Easter Festival Overture and the first ...