Without a doubt, the music of Mozart has a universal appeal that has endured for centuries. His reputation as a child prodigy, a virtuoso performer and the composer of his age is as far as many Mozart ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most influential and important composers whose life spanned the Classical and Romantic periods. His life began in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was one of three ...

As a beginner on almost every instrument, the range of possible pieces can be limited which is not encouraging if you want to make progress. Fortunately, in the case of the Piano, there is a vast ...

The term Concert Pianist, I suspect is a relatively new title. I would speculate that the word came about with the emergence of the Romantic virtuoso pianists like Franz Liszt, Frederick Chopin, and ...

How many children did bach have? Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children. Yes, twenty. He was a busy man. The whole Bach family, including cousins and generations before J.S. came along was ...

Our greatest connection to a composer is through his music. And as a lot of the music we listen to is so exceptional, it is easy to imagine that the person who created it is also entirely exceptional.

Justin Wildridge is a media composer and multi-instrumentalist based in South-West of England where he works from his own studio. He holds a Doctorate in musical composition from the University of ...

Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, which was part of the Papal states, in 1792. His father Giuseppe was a semi-professional trumpeter member of a local orchestra who played in support of the French ...

JS Bach came from a long line of established musicians. He was born in 1685 in Eisenach, Germany the son of Johan Ambrosius Bach, also a fine musician. Orphaned at the age of ten, he went to live with ...

When people first start to get to grips with the concept of harmony in music (from a Western point of view at least), the words ‘major’ and ‘minor’ quickly enter the conversation. As a young musician, ...

Angelica Frey is an Italian former scholar in Classics who just got her master’s degree in journalism from NYU. She has written for Saveur and First We Feast and is now a regular contributor to New ...

We all have childhood memories related to Tom and Jerry and the slapstick humor surrounding their odd relationship, even though, if you watch them as an adult, you may notice some controversial ...