Short Ride in a Fast Machine was written for the opening of an American music festival and is a ... Saint-Georges was the first Classical composer of African ancestry and was a champion fencer ...

Music from over 150 composers to enjoy from John Adams to Fanny Mendelssohn, Florence Price to Alexander Zemlinksy. Search by surname, click on pieces to play them in BBC Sounds, then simply click ...

The music of Rosemary Brown, a British musician and self-presented homemaker, demonstrates specific knowledge which far ...

For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected. October is Black History Month, and this ...

These five composers had trouble sleeping at night ... Despite this, or rather because of this, he was able to write some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music ever written. His Nachtstück ...

The story of the long-lost waltz starts at the Morgan on a late-spring day, when the curator and composer Robinson McClellan ...

The term 'Polish composers' school' was popularised in the early 1960s mainly by German music critics. This term was coined to name the specific style of Polish music in which the tone of sound is a ...

The 37-year-old French-Georgian, who has collaborated with major mainstream artists like Coldplay and A$AP Rocky, released ...

The Performer-Composer Master of Music (MM ... The curriculum draws inspiration from diverse ideas and musical styles, including contemporary classical music, jazz, rock, electronic music, avant-garde ...

L udwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a prodigious composer, credited with 722 works that pushed the boundaries of music and ...

The Picasso Symphony experience will pair the Spanish master's artwork with music from his favorite composers.

an award-winning conductor and one of the world's most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have featured in Hollywood films like "The Shining" and "Shutter Island," died Sunday.