From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of ...

From the Baroque brilliance of Handel to the modern innovations of Stravinsky, discover the journeys of some of Western music’s greatest composers, their compositions, and the impact they’ve had.

Off Recognised as one of the greatest classical composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 800 pieces of music throughout his short life. Before his death at the age of 35, he ...

Nils teaches Bertil to change his size by singing a spell-like song. For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera can be similarly transfiguring — it’s like casting a spell ...

Naomi: The Classical period of music put an emphasis on elegance, balance and beauty. Classical composers largely worked between the years 1750 to around 1810 and this period was dominated by ...

That’s how US conductor JoAnn Falletta describes the man she characterises as one of ‘the most important French composers ... a prominent role in French classical music is: Florent Schmitt.