For many people, the use of the word medieval conjures up a time of extreme poverty, war and plague with little in the way of redeeming features. Far from the dark images offered by certain Hollywood ...

In Beethoven’s relatively short life he devoted significant time to composing for the instrument that he made his own: the piano. Even though Beethoven composed nine astonishing Symphonies, sonatas, ...

The tragically short life of Franz Schubert gave rise to some of the most celebrated and performed music written during that period of history. Schubert, born in Austria, lived from 1789 to 1828. In ...

There are and continue to be many pieces of music that do not ask the singer to sing words at all. Instead, performers may be directed by composers to produce all manner of sounds from a hum to ...

Edvard Grieg is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

Jordan Smith has been a contributor to CMUSE since February 2015. He served as editor from July 2016 until February 2017.

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 ...

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