2017-03-20 12:41
They call Joseph Haydn the father in music. He is considered to be, indirectly, the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, having contributed to both genres the elements that ma… Read More
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2017-03-14 14:57
Johann Strauss composed his famous march in 1848 dedicating it to the Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky. Unlike the traditional march that is intended first of all for military bands to march to… Read More
2017-02-23 13:11
Some composers will forever remain the pillars in classical music and that’s for a reason. The names of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, for instance, are something musicians will rely on a… Read More
2017-02-15 11:34
The motion picture “Romeo and Juliet” is one of those cases when you might be totally indifferent about the movie itself but fall in love with the music. Soundtrack thus is an im… Read More
2017-01-25 13:02
They were not the first to do it, but their example is a clear and vivid one. A few days ago, I read a story about the fight of a McDonald’s store with crime with the help of classical… Read More
2017-01-11 13:20
The Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian was one of the leading music writers in the USSR. Some of his first concertos, including 1936 Piano Concerto, 1940 Violin Concerto and 1946 Cel… Read More
2016-12-22 09:15
There is hardly any other fugue in the history of classical music that would attract such a long row of controversial and striking epithets besides the renowned work by one of the most influ… Read More
2016-12-08 13:01
The concerto composed by Edvard Grieg was meant to become not just one of the most popular compositions among his own pieces but also a world-class music work, one of the most outstanding an… Read More
2016-11-22 14:19
Literally, ‘Berceuse’ is translated as ‘lullaby’, or ‘cradle song’ and, to be honest, I would have been the happiest kid if such a lullaby had been p… Read More
2016-11-01 09:32
Perhaps in all of the classical music ever written there is hardly a combination of notes more widely-recognized than the four famous ‘da-da-da-daah’ notes everyone’s ear h… Read More
2016-10-07 11:38
Claude Debussy is well-known to represent the art of impressionism in music, though composer himself did not like to be coined with the term. Labels aside, most of his music has the ability… Read More
2016-09-27 12:04
We all have a few favorite movies that are remembered and loved not only by the plot but also for some other important components of a good film. Every carefully selected phrase, characteris… Read More
2016-09-14 08:55
Science is a curious madam. She wants to know where you’ve been, what you’ve done and how you did it. She just has to!Here’s a pretty amazing video on how this curious mada… Read More
2016-08-10 10:02
Amazing Grace is among the music compositions most loved by the English language world, particularly by the Americans. It can be heard in most churches, beautifully sung by mixed choirs, it… Read More
2016-07-27 10:20
In 2012, I was honestly surprised to find out that the video to a pop song by some Korean guy beat all possible records and broke YouTube’s views counter exceeding its limits. Of cours… Read More
2016-07-13 12:29
Composing one of his last works, Maurice Ravel had hardly thought that this one would become his most renowned and well-known piece of music. “Boléro” was intended to beco… Read More
2016-06-28 12:40
The scandalous and provocative dance ‘of prostitutes’, can-can was to traditional dancing culture of the 19th century what rock’n’roll was to music at its origins. Th… Read More
2016-06-08 13:10
This quartet can by right be called one of the strongest pillars in the genre of chamber music. Most of the string quartets out there would necessarily have it in their repertoire. It might… Read More
2016-05-20 11:54
When it comes to rock music, one of the reasons for Britain to be proud in this regard is the fact that it’s homeland to one of the best alternative rock bands of today – Coldpla… Read More
2016-05-05 13:35
They say that the more you practice the better. That practicing should be a never-ending process and you could spend your life doing it and still find a lot to master. There’s a very t… Read More
2016-04-07 13:15
The Piano has always been my major musical instrument and therefore there is a special list of piano solos that are either among my favorites to play or that make the so-called ‘goals… Read More
2016-03-30 07:14
What’s the caprice anyway? 24 is number of the last caprice in Paganini’s set of 24 works for solo violin. All of those were composed in the period between 1802 and 1817 and are… Read More
2016-03-17 12:50
In 1893, the great Russian composer Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's completed his Symphony No.6 that is commonly known as 'Pathétique'. So why was it ‘pathetic’ anyway?Petr Ilyi… Read More
2016-02-17 12:39
Advanced violin players are familiar with this outstanding work by Pyotr Ilyich. The famous Violin Concerto in D Major is known worldwide as one of the most difficult works for violin. The 3… Read More
2016-02-04 08:57
Maurice Ravel composed this piece in 1901 and admitted that it was the beginning of a certain novelty that appeared in his music style.Literally, “Jeux d’eau” is translated… Read More
2016-01-27 12:27
Everyone has a dream. Some have more than one but I think everyone has, at least, one Big Dream that always quite distant and somehow impossible. But dreaming makes us move, keeps us g… Read More
2016-01-13 12:39
As the saying goes, ‘behind every successful man there is always a woman’. No, Mozart’s wife Constanze was not the one who pushed him and made a great composer out of what… Read More
2015-12-18 14:02
Sometimes music is all we need to dive into some special world of art, beauty and comprehension. But when music is enhanced by other senses – vision, smell and touch – a powerful… Read More
2015-12-04 12:52
Brandenburg Concertos composed by Johann Sebastian Bach are without exaggeration the most notable orchestral works of the Baroque period. There are six of them all in all, each composed at a… Read More
2015-11-12 12:53
She’s back and is as stunning as ever! A lot of fans worldwide have been waiting for Adele’s comeback for an eternity it seems. And she brought them the joy by presenting the new… Read More
2015-11-02 13:42
Since early times, men of art have been dedicating a good part of their creative work to religious themes. Virgin Mary is perhaps one of the biggest religious objects of inspiration for pain… Read More
2015-10-08 12:41
They say that the best works in different spheres of art are mostly begot as a result of some sad, tragic or shocking events in a human’s life. The cases when enormous happiness became… Read More
2015-09-22 14:27
If the desire to achieve something is too big – there is almost no way anything can stand in your way to achieve it. History remembers so many cases of amazingly strong will displayed… Read More
2015-08-31 14:17
As an organist and composer of a lot of choral music (both secular & sacred), Anton Bruckner had a special composing style that to some may seem quite complex and sophisticated. Composer… Read More
2015-07-24 14:42
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was fond of Spanish motives which in 1887 inspired him for composing his famous work “Capriccio Espagnol” (literally ‘capriccio on Spanish themes&rs&hell…Read More
2015-07-14 12:09
I’ve noticed that I start perceiving the simplest things through the prism of music. And things like movies, TV series and even animated cartoons are especially closely connected with… Read More
2015-06-22 13:49
The Well-Tempered Clavier is by far one of the most influential music works of all time (though I think it could easily be called THE most). Composed by Bach in 1722, this unique multi-purpo… Read More
2015-06-16 08:29
Do you like to watch Eurovision? I’m personally a big fan of this song contest and I’m looking forward to it every year ready to vote for the best song. I know there have been a… Read More
2015-06-02 12:34
Why do certain music works become the most performed in music halls of the world? To think about it, the list of such classical compositions is not that long considering the scale of the pla… Read More
2015-05-27 13:46
Having a favorite composer, or two, or a dozen – is one thing. But even the most well-known and widely-recognized music masterpieces can be performed in so diverse ways. Thus having yo… Read More
2015-04-09 12:34
I always couldn’t help but agree that all the new stuff is just the well-forgot old stuff. Same in fashion, same in architecture, same in any form of art, including, of course, music!… Read More
2015-03-12 14:54
So I run into this short note on NBC News saying that a certain guy, Andrew Vactor by name, was listening to music too loudly in public and to be punished for that received a most curious se… Read More
2015-02-02 07:04
I sometimes wonder how people get inspired for creating certain things. Isn’t it wonderful that at some point of your life you may get ‘hit’ by some crazy idea and find it… Read More
2014-07-29 12:07
I believe each one of us has at least once found the proof to the fact that we don’t value something strong enough until we lose it. To think about, we are so happy to live, to be able… Read More
2014-07-18 13:32
Hallelujah. A song-legend, a modern timeless hit with a long and most difficult past full of both obscurity and fame. Who could predict that the original song that appeared in 1984 and dragg… Read More
2014-07-03 08:28
Some say that the key to creating a successful song is first of all hidden in its personal background. That’s precisely one of the reasons why Adele skyrocketed that high with her song… Read More
2014-06-13 14:26
I already paid a little tribute to this great music band earlier but I so love their creative ‘quality’ work that I’d gladly talk more about their lovely music concept and… Read More
2014-05-07 12:52
We know Debussy as one of greatest impressionist composers of all time, if not The greatest (‘the’, however, is not quite the right thing to use when talking about art). Anyway… Read More
2014-04-28 12:12
The unparalleled impact this man made on the world music is and will be remembered and acknowledged for many years ahead. So much has been said, filmed, sung, written about Bob Marley and hi… Read More
2014-04-02 15:17
They say the most memorable parts of a work – be it film, book, music piece and so on – are the impressive beginning and the powerful ending. The latter sometimes even more impor… Read More
2014-03-21 14:37
Air on a G String is a popular aria from the orchestral suite No.3 in D major by Johann Sebastian Bach. The aria was composed in honor of Bach’s patron Prince Leopold of Anhalt and bec… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
No woman, no cry – Bob Marley sang. Perhaps =) But no woman would also mean no love, happiness and eternal spring generators in our life! It’s no wonder that the International Wo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Talent is to shine brighter when spotted at the right moment. That’s the case of the Spanish composer and violinist of the Romantic epoch Pablo de Sarasate. At the age of 8 during his… Read More
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