Known for his contributions to both public education and church music, Lowell Mason’s early music training was in singing and structure of hymns. By the time he was 16, he was already conducting a ...

Angelica Frey is an Italian former scholar in Classics who just got her master’s degree in journalism from NYU. She has written for Saveur and First We Feast and is now a regular contributor to New ...

Classical music abounds in Walt Disney productions: Fantasia contains animated sequences and narrations inspired by the pieces of classical music playing in the background, whether it be Stravinsky’s ...

Much like his rival, he was born in a family of dance musicians, as his father Louis and his elder brother Leon were well-versed in music as well. The family moved from Strasbourg to Paris when Emile ...

When you hear the word ‘symphony’, you immediately think of something solemn and majestic such as Mozart’s Jupiter symphony, Beethoven’s Eroica (a current earworm of mine) or the opening notes of ...

You just need to hear a violin tremolo in the key of A major accompanied by a horn (and maybe the staccato wind chords) to discern the Blue Danube, while the loud opening chords in B-flat major, to ...

Aaron Copland composed music known for its “American” sound during a time when music in the United States was still heavily influenced by the European composers. Copland was born November 14, 1900, in ...

The water element abounds in classical music throughout the centuries: just consider Händel’s Water Music (whose title, however, just references the fact that his music was to be performed on a barge) ...

The Christmas carol Silent Night was first performed at a Christmas Eve service in 1818 in the village of Oberndorf, outside of Salzburg, Austria. The story behind this gentle song about a peaceful, ...

This article is given over to some of the most well-known and well-loved pieces from the Romantic era of music. The Romantic era is one of the most popular eras of musical history as is gave rise to ...

1) Franz Schubert was born January 31, 1797 and died 31 years later. 2) He was the only one of the great Viennese composers actually born in Vienna. 3) His first piano teacher was his older brother, ...

This is a particularly interesting title as we enter uncharted territories with the rise of AI across The Arts. Some greet this revolution with eager anticipation whilst others are more cautious. What ...