Two pieces of music by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell have been discovered by teams of musicologists in ...

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The infamously tempestuous painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio has few surviving paintings from his short and dramatic ...

2. Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of tutorials ...

Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Download 'Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35' on iTunes ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

An emotive Oscar-winning score from cinema's maestro of movie music. The most successful movie composer ever, John Williams has penned some of the most emotional orchestral music of the past 40 years.

'Wachet auf' (4) Johann Sebastian Bach Download ''Wachet auf' (4)' on iTunes ...

A star soprano was stunned, as a young opera fan stood up during her Verdi recital to be the Alfredo to her Violetta. When a young Verdi fan noticed his favourite star soprano was without a duet ...

Beethoven’s music is all the more amazing because he wrote so much of it when he was almost or totally deaf. At the end of the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the composer had to be turned around to ...

Berceuse in Db major Opus 57 Frederic Chopin Download 'Berceuse in Db major Opus 57' on iTunes ...