Korsakov Biography – Music Collection Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian[…]

Weber Biography – Music Collection – Music | History Composer, conductor, virtuoso, novelist, and essayist, Carl Maria von Weber is one of the great figures of[…]

Haydn Biography – Music Collection – Music | History Franz Joseph Haydn was among the creators of the fundamental genres of classical music, and his influence[…]

Tchaikovsky Biography – Music Collection – Music | History Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s work was first publicly performed in 1865, with Johann Strauss the Younger conducting Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic[…]

Dvorak Biography – Music Collection – Music | History Dvořák was born, the first of nine children, in Nelahozeves, a Bohemian (now Czech) village on the[…]

Mendelssohn Biography – Music Collection – Music | History German Romantic composer, pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn wrote Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream and founded[…]

Liszt Biography – Music Collection – Music | History Franz Liszt was a Hungarian pianist and composer of enormous influence and originality. He was renowned in[…]

Chopin – Etude Op. 25 No. 4 – Music | History The Études by Frédéric Chopin are three sets of études (solo studies) for the piano[…]

Bach – Chorale Preludes BWV 662. Allein Gott in der Hoh’ Sei Ehr – Music | History The Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes, BWV 651–668, are a[…]

Brahms – Violin Sonata No. 3 – Op. 108 – Adagio – Music | History Johannes Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108[…]