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Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.
There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed ...
Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific musicians that ever lived. Here, the author Judith Grohmann takes us ...
A revealing insight into Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life. The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of ...
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began ...
The conversations the 63-year-old Rossini had with Ferdinand Hiller in Trouville in Normandy in September 1855, and the finely drafted impression of Rossini himself with ...
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical ...
In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today ...
An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius
Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific-Schubert is one ...
'Magnificent.' - Kate Mosse'Riveting.' - Antonia Fraser
'Wonderful.' - Claire Tomalin
'Splendid.' - Miranda Seymour
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Vic-torian composer ...
'Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ .] riveting andrevelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is ...
Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means to be a ...
Did Margaret Sutherland achieve more for Australian music than any other composer?
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In ...
Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as 'one of the essential artists of our time ...
How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of ...
Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a ...
