In the late 1880s, she was studying music in Leipzig, where she lived with Marco, her larger-than-life half-breed St Bernard who, in 1887, she took along to a rehearsal of the Brahms Piano Quintet ...
Romantic composer Robert Schumann had an extremely turbulent life, with several episodes of overwhelming depression that quite literally haunted him. Despite this, or rather because of this, he was ...
For the next 35 years he generated booms in opera, choral and instrumental playing, and London attracted a wealth of major European composers, Mozart, Chopin and Mahler among them. The Victorian era ...
As the gaming industry matures, music has emerged as a critical element in crafting the emotional landscape of these games. In particular, Hollywood’s top composers are now crossing over from ...
An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get ...