A mysterious and misunderstood artist whose genius outlived the tales of his moody, peculiar character, the composer who lost hearing... Read More
Fun facts about Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - on his brief stint as a winemaker, poor singing, and post-plague contemplations of priesthood. Read More
Sophisticated, lyrical, layered. Peek into the troubled world of one of the most famous romantics, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff. When you... 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
Friedrich Nietzsche is primarily noted for his philosophical work, but as André Schaeffner said: “In the whole history of philosophy... Read More
Paganini, the greatest violinist of all time Born in 1782 in the Republic of Genoa, Nicola Paganini began playing the... Read More
From being a crime scene of a murder case to its construction of a golden ceiling threatening to drain the... Read More
Since 2006, Martin Jarvis, a musicologist from Charles Darwin University in Australia, has claimed that Johann Sebastian Bach is not... Read More
Examining the existing evidence to the intrigue at the centre of the Mozart myth. Read More
It was easy(or not?) to decide who should belong to the top 10 of the best flutists in the world.... Read More
Stray bullets, accidental electrocutions, and untreated wounds – the history of classical music is full of dreadful deaths, sometimes mysterious,... Read More
A look at composers and their favourite pastimes - with photo proof. Read More
