August 17, 2023Although Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was born and raised in the German town of Hamburg, he spent much of his adulthood…
August 17, 2023In the early twentieth century, composers were experimenting with increasingly intellectual methods of composition. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) ignored contemporary trends...
August 17, 2023Hungarian composer, conductor, and pianist Béla Bartók (1881–1945) was born in Nagyszentmiklós, a town that now lies within Romanian borders.…
August 14, 2023Music was a way of life for the family of Mexican composer Arturo Márquez (b. 1950). His grandfather was a…
August 14, 2023Erik Satie (1866–1925) was an outlier, both musically and socially. As a piano student, he left the Paris Conservatory twice…
August 14, 2023Like Márquez and Satie, Spanish-born composer Carlos Surinach (1915–1997) embraced dance as an inspiration for his music. More significantly, it…
August 14, 2023When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) left the employ of the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1781, he risked losing the security…
August 11, 2023By 1891, Dvořák was serving as composition professor at the Prague Conservatory. His achievements and status gained notice across Europe…- August 11, 2023In 1879, one of the leading violinists of the time, Joseph Joachim, heard a Dvořák string quartet and went on…
August 11, 2023Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887–1953) is an American treasure whose music was almost forgotten due to her race and gender.…
