Toward the end of her life, Eugenie Schumann published a book called The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms: The Memoirs of Eugenie Schumann. Eugenie Schumann was a music teacher, pianist, and writer, but she was always best known for being the

These compositions show that new music is not a monolith, containing as many varied approaches as there are composers, even if common threads tend to emerge. The term “new music” is itself hard to define, broadly referring to compositions in

We tend to think of the great composers as gods who created their masterpieces in some kind of temple of art. But in reality, there was no temple, and none of the great composers lived in a vacuum. All were

The big love stories in classical music history almost always capture audiences’ imaginations, whether they’re filled with romance or tragedy (or both). Today, we’re exploring ten of the longest marriages in classical music history, assessing how these decades-long relationships helped

ARTE Concerts presents a world of musical brilliance with a captivating performance featuring the legendary pianist Martha Argerich and the masterful conductor Ion Marin. Together they breathe new life into Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 7, joined

In addition to being one of the greatest composers and pianists of the Romantic Era, Frédéric Chopin was a famously witty and sensitive writer. Here are some quotes from his letters that paint a picture of what Chopin really felt

One of the major difficulties of studying the Holocaust is understanding its sheer scale. The human brain isn’t built to process what the murder of millions of people really means. However, by zeroing in and looking at individual stories, we

Pianist Amy Fay was born in Louisiana in 1844. She began studying piano as a child and quickly proved to be very talented. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in the 1860s and, in 1869, took the