Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. In a classical song, when a voice is accompanied by a piano, there can be a tendency for the vocal…

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Like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” or Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” Franz Schubert’s “Erlkönig” feels more like an epic film than merely a song. Composed in 1815…

It is easy to think of classical music as being written by old men in powdered wigs who lived eons ago, but in reality, it remains…

In the 2002 film The Pianist, actor Adrien Brody portrays Władysław Szpilman, a Polish pianist of Jewish descent. Szpilman was a well-known performer working for…

We’ve all heard the Lullaby, probably since we were babies, but did you know it was written after a fling between German composer Johannes Brahms and…