The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

NPR's recent list of the 150 greatest albums by women was inspiring - but where were the composers? In the wake of much discussion about the chronic underrepresentation of female composers on American ...

Some of history's greatest musical minds — Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and others — made bold, uncharacteristic compositions during their last... Deathbed Music: The Final Works Of Famous Composers ...

Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it can be ...

Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

Unearthing long-buried pieces of history have fuelled the plot of many summer-read novels. But how many of these discoveries happen in real life? In 2024, two library archives announced the unearthing ...

One of the first directors of the Kyiv Conservatory, Reinhold Gliere (left), "The Father of modern Ukrainian classical music," Mykola Lysenko, and Ukraine's "first woman composer," Stefania Turkewich.