If you’re looking for the softest, most intimate, and most seductive melodies, then the trumpet is a musical instrument for... Read More
Mordents Magazine introduces you to the life and work of a quintessentially American composer. Read More
A look at composers and their favourite pastimes - with photo proof. Read More
From being a crime scene of a murder case to its construction of a golden ceiling threatening to drain the... Read More
Let’s take a look at the life and work of a Japanese musical trailblazer of the 19th century – Nobu... Read More
Friedrich Nietzsche is primarily noted for his philosophical work, but as André Schaeffner said: “In the whole history of philosophy... Read More
The biographies of the great Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli (1673-1713) testify of a turbulent life filled with strange gaps, replete with embellishments and anecdotal evidence. We try to piece together some of the lesser known facts on the composer’s life. Read More
A mysterious and misunderstood artist whose genius outlived the tales of his moody, peculiar character, the composer who lost hearing... Read More
Mordents offers you a quick rundown of some of the most interesting points of this Renaissance composer's life. Read More
“I often hear flashes of him coming up in music by late nineteenth-century French composers (including César Franck, who arranged... Read More
Sophisticated, lyrical, layered. Peek into the troubled world of one of the most famous romantics, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff. When you... Read More
Born in 1833 in Hamburg, Brahms was a freedom-loving man. A devoted and faithful friend, he was a man who lived... Read More
