Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...

What's the recipe for a memorable classical music concert? Start with Boston's beautiful Symphony Hall. Add the outstanding Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mix in a few world-class opera singers. Set the ...

Should the music of the notoriously antisemitic German composer Richard Wagner be played in Israel? In 1938, a Jewish member of the board of what was then called the Palestine Symphony asked the ...

A new exhibition at the country’s national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer. By Ben Miller BERLIN — Few composers inspire such a mix of ...