Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

Cellist Susan Lamb Cook started the Great Composers Chamber Music Series at a time when the need for music performance was paramount in Sacramento. The Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera had taken the ...

A year ago, New Orleans-born 19th century composer Edmond Dédé was the star of the annual Musical Louisiana: America’s Cultural Heritage concert, a collaboration between the Historic New Orleans ...

Delphine von Schauroth (1813–1887) was spectacularly famous in the early 19th century. The German virtuoso pianist and composer was hailed as a musical genius by critics for her powerful and inventive ...

From the mid-1850s until his death in December 1869, the New Orleans-born pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk was also a prolific composer. During that brief decade and a half, he is believed to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered.

LONDON (Reuters) - Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin is an archaeologist-cum-miracle worker of the piano who has almost single-handedly brought "dead" 19th-century composers back to life with his ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Constanze Geiger began performing her own works in public when she was 8. A waltz she wrote at age 12 will make history at the New Year’s Concert in ...

Though ballet as we know it today originated in mid-19th-century France, its spectacular rise to popularity was consolidated later in the century at the Imperial Theatres of St. Petersburg and Moscow.

We talk about the daring third symphony of Louise Farrenc, a 19th-century French composer who made her mark then but is little known now. 19th-Century Composer Louise Farrenc's 'Defiant' 3rd Symphony ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library and ...