If there are any four notes in all the classical music canon that almost everyone recognizes – even those who wouldn’t know Mozart from Muddy Waters – it would be the bah-bah-bah-BOHM of Beethoven’s ...

At least, that’s how it feels to the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra’s music director and conductor, Maestro William Intriligator, whenever one of his symphonies come to an end. Taylor Staples is ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. The symphony contains many Classical features found in the works of his predecessors Haydn and Mozart, but Beethoven ...

Ignite! 2025 event with over 30 sessions featuring panel discussions and masterclasses led by top classical music figures.

This pacifist masterpiece, Farewell to Arms, was composed in 1944 as Finzi dealt with the realities of the First World War. The beautiful music is scored for tenor and small orchestra. British ...

The Handel and Haydn Society was originally founded as a large community chorus, and this year, over 50 additional teen and ...

right image by Allan warren licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 & left image by Sassy licensed under CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

November 13, 2024 • The youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition makes our trusty upright piano sound like a 9-foot grand in music by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

Franz Joseph Haydn composed Symphony No.101 in 1793 during the Classical period. It is likely that the symphony was nicknamed ‘The Clock’ because of the continuous quavers in the second movement.

Nicholas Collon makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations,” while pianist Conrad Tao solos in Tchaikovsky. The cello section of the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...