Pianist and composer Johann Hummel (1778-1837) began as a child prodigy who was taught for two years for free by Mozart and later by Haydn, and later still was friends with Beethoven and Schubert and ...
Classical music’s blessing is also its curse: you’ve simply got to pay it attention. Plus: No wonder Rossini was an Olympics hit – he invented disco ...
19th century folk or fairy tales were often pretty gruesome. For example, “Zlatý kolovrat” (The Golden Spinning Wheel) by Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben tells a tale that Czech composer Antonín ...