A composer, organist, conductor and pedagogue. Born on 22 December 1866 in Środa near Poznań, died on 11 September 1924 in Warsaw. We all know that Fryderyk Chopin (Frédéric Chopin) was one of the ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a collective sense the audience was about to witness history.

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman ... her mother taught her to play the piano and her brother was the composer Felix Mendelssohn.

From cabaret to Western country to blues to pre-19th-century composers, the Beatles’ eclectic musical tastes certainly helped color their unique style. Such was the case for “Blackbird,” the ...

Composers were marketed as purveyors of the “classical”; it was a way of telling 19th-Century consumers that, by playing and listening to Haydn, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, they could become ...

The concert harp is famous for its heavenly image. It hasn’t always had a place in orchestral music, but since the 19th century composers like Ravel and Debussy have been in love with the instrument ...

But how did composers imagine 'Polishness' in music – both in Poland and abroad? How did Polish music succeed in carrying the spirit of a national struggle across generations? What songs did Poles ...

Assured performances from the RPO as part of its ongoing “Lights in the Dark” series that brought career correspondences ...

videoSaint-Saëns and developments in French composition In this short film Howard Goodall asks how French composers changed the direction of music in the 19th century. Includes a focus on Erik ...