“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than the elevator. The project ...

Given the distance, in time the stories that surround these two great composers vary greatly and many are difficult to put stock into. In short, Beethoven and Mozart did meet. One account that is ...

Both Liszt and Chopin were born at a time in musical history when the piano was already established as a popular instrument with composers and audiences not least because of its generous range and ...

In 1897, a few months from death, Johannes Brahms could be found in front of his stove surrounded by pages of personal correspondence and sheet music. With no wife or children to protect his legacy, ...

Justin Wildridge is a media composer and multi-instrumentalist based in South-West of England where he works from his own studio. He holds a Doctorate in musical composition from the University of ...

As a beginner on almost every instrument, the range of possible pieces can be limited which is not encouraging if you want to make progress. Fortunately, in the case of the Piano, there is a vast ...

Female composers have throughout history frequently been overlooked in favour of male composers. The reasons given were usually flimsy, biased and even ignorant. Whilst female composers are more ...

Without a doubt, the music of Mozart has a universal appeal that has endured for centuries. His reputation as a child prodigy, a virtuoso performer and the composer of his age is as far as many Mozart ...

Georgina St George is a classical pianist and media composer based on the south coast of the UK. Her music features on over 100 TV shows. Her musicals have been produced in New York and in London's ...

How many children did bach have? Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty children. Yes, twenty. He was a busy man. The whole Bach family, including cousins and generations before J.S. came along was ...

The term Concert Pianist, I suspect is a relatively new title. I would speculate that the word came about with the emergence of the Romantic virtuoso pianists like Franz Liszt, Frederick Chopin, and ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most influential and important composers whose life spanned the Classical and Romantic periods. His life began in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was one of three ...