Ludwig van Beethoven, popular just as ‘Beethoven’ is undoubtedly one of the most famous and iconic music composers ever. Even people who do not know who a music composer is, has heard the name ...

To celebrate the spooky season this year, we're slashing apart a 1917 silent horror film with composer Andrew Earle Simpson to find out how music can be the beating heart of suspense. Grab your ...

By Adam Nossiter Leif Segerstam, a Finnish conductor and composer whose remarkable output — 371 symphonies in all — was as mysterious as his pronouncements about them, died on Oct. 9 in Helsinki.

For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected. October is Black History Month, and this ...

But we’re not talking about Wolfgang Amadeus... The famous composer’s older sister Maria Anna Mozart (nicknamed ‘Nannerl’) toured with her brother and father and found her own fame. Now scholars and ...