Music has slipped through the bars of Cage
The avant-garde composer and poet John Cage Photo: AP
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Vivaldi Concerto Discovered in Dresden
La Serenissima
What’s Behind Israel’s Unofficial Ban on Wagner?
The Israel Chamber Orchestra performed the music of Wagner for the first time on July 26, 2011 in Bayreuth, Germany.
(Lennart Preiss / AP Photo)
We should celebrate Debussy by assessing his real legacy
Head and shoulder portrait of French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Photograph by Nadar, 1908.
Photograph: Nadar/ Bettmann/CORBIS
Newly bequeathed letter shows Beethoven’s misery
A scanned handout image shows a rare handwritten letter from 1823, by famous German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, at Brahms Institute in Luebeck, December 30, 2011. REUTERS/Mathias Broesicke/Dematon Luebeck
Beethoven music shaped by gradual deafness, say experts
Beethoven began to lose his hearing
in his late twenties
Schoenberg Papers to Reside at North Texas U
DENTON, Texas (AP) — Arnold Greissle-Schoenberg can still picture his grandfather, composer Arnold Schoenberg, raising his finger to command attention.
“Whenever Schoenberg wanted to say something he would raise his finger and everybody would fall silent and then he would have his say,” said Greissle-Schoenberg, whose childhood memories include watching his grandfather holding court with other musical luminaries.
Our music restored harmony and rhythm, says Steve Reich
I learned nothing from Beethoven, Reich commented.
For Liszt, Experimentation Was a Form of Greatness
A 1839 portrait of Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann.
Image: P. Pierrain/Musee Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris
Still Searching For Bruckner’s True Intentions
J. Löwy/Courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra
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