7 Curious Facts You Should Know About Symphonies
When you hear the word ‘symphony’, you immediately think of something solemn and majestic such as Mozart’s Jupiter symphony, Beethoven’s Eroica (a current earworm of … Read more
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Eleven Beautiful Pieces of Classical Music Inspired by Water
The water element abounds in classical music throughout the centuries: just consider Händel’s Water Music (whose title, however, just references the fact that his music … Read more
Famous Musical Siblings: 5 Tales of Blood, Success, and Disappointment
Johannes and Friedrich Brahms Johannes was the golden child. Two years older than Friedrich, he was quickly marked for greatness by his piano teachers. Wanting … Read more
15 Amazing Concert Venues From Around the World
Deciding on the best music venues around the world was always going to be a controversial topic, what with so many different criteria to judge … Read more
6 Famous Romantic Era Music Pieces You Should Know
This article is given over to some of the most well-known and well-loved pieces from the Romantic era of music. The Romantic era is one … Read more
31 Things to Know about Franz Schubert
1) Franz Schubert was born January 31, 1797 and died 31 years later. 2) He was the only one of the great Viennese composers actually … Read more
Five Famous Composers Who Suffered From Deafness
Hearing loss has been an occupational hazard for musicians for some time. It has been receiving more attention recently as significant numbers of musicians have … Read more
Here is What Great Philosophers Thought of Music
While philosophers and scholars of the pre-modern era kept studying music from a harmonic point of view and often delved deeper into the concept “musica … Read more
7 Pieces of Classical Music about Love
Like a theme that threads through so much art, literature and music, love has provided inspiration for some of the most celebrated composer’s works. In … Read more
13 Most Interesting Versions of Happy Birthday
A US court has ruled that one of the world’s most popular songs, Happy Birthday, is no longer under copyright. This could potentially mean that … Read more
5 Famous Piano Pieces By W A Mozart
Mozart is probably the most celebrated composer from the Classical period of music. His output contained over six hundred compositions, many of which were for … Read more
13 Symphonic Poems Every Classical Music Lover Should Listen To
In 1851, Richard Wagner made a bold statement regarding the art of symphony: he claimed that, after Beethoven’s substantial contribution to the genre, the symphonies … Read more
Seven Composers and Their Mental Illnesses
Whoever analyses the biographies of a determinate amount of classical composers will notice that half exhibited cases of various degrees of psychopathology: affective disorders–anxiety and … Read more
Five Types of Classical music lovers you find online
The Internet 2.0 gave us a great opportunity: user-generated content can allow anyone’s voice to be heard (a blessing or a curse?) and, as a … Read more
Five Curious Facts about Music and Brain Damage
Music is the ultimate “brain” activity, as it involves the motor, visual, auditory, audiovisual, somatosensory, parietal and frontal areas in both hemispheres and the cerebellum. … Read more