Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) and his older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847) shared an extraordinary musical bond. Trained together in childhood by the same teachers, the two prodigies developed strikingly similar foundations. As musicologist Angela Mace Christian told smithsonian.com in 2017,

In 1580, luthier John Rose created a new instrument that he named after the allegorical musicians Orpheus and Arion. Together, they personify the power of music, and in his new instrument, the orpharion, Rose created a rival for the lute.

On 15 April 1452, one of the greatest universal geniuses was born in a small village in Tuscany. As we all know, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most iconic paintings of all time, and people will line up

Why do classical musicians play from memory, and when did the tradition begin? Believe it or not, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, playing from memory was actually considered bad manners. Most performers read from sheet music, and even

If you love Baroque instrumental music, you will undoubtedly have come across the “concerto grosso,” also known as the “big concerto.” It’s a specific form where the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists, called the “concertino,”

During the golden age of eighteenth-century English music, no single family in the entire British Empire was more talented than the Linleys of Bath. Parented by the ambitious composer and impresario Thomas Linley the Elder and his wife Mary Johnson

Born on 12 April 1994 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Anastasiya Petryshak has received several notable recognitions. These include the “European Personality in Classical Music” award in 2016 and “Woman of the Year” at the 2022 Profilo Donna awards. According to her

Mark Hambourg (1879–1960) was born in Russia but made his career in England. His entire family was musical: his father was the pianist Michael Hambourg (1855–1916), a student of Anton Rubinstein, and three of his younger brothers, Boris, Jan, and Clement,