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Piano
Chiquinha Gonzaga defined Brazilian art by breaking down social barriers

Chiquinha Gonzaga started her professional career as a musician in the 19th century Brazil at a time when it was widely…

February 24, 2019
Orchestra
Only 3 Mantras survived from Sanskrit opera Avatara by John Foulds

One of the greatest areas of music history still remaining largely uncharted is the influence of Indian philosophy on…

February 22, 2019
Ney
Ottoman heritage captured in music manuscripts of Bobowski

The oldest known examples of Ottoman music notation can be found in a few manuscripts compiled by composer and polyglot…

February 19, 2019
Orchestra
The perfect union of Italian and French styles by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (née Elisabeth Jacquet) was one of the first female composers known to history,…

February 12, 2019
Classical Guitar
Guitar virtuoso Napoléon Coste suffered from acute piano phobia

The creative life of the brilliant French guitarist and composer Napoléon Coste happened to blossom during the Romantic…

February 12, 20191 comment
Erhu
The renaissance of Chinese Erhu fiddle led by Liu Tianhua

Made from exotic woods and snakeskin, the erhu fiddle is the most common ethnic instrument used in both orchestral and…

February 8, 2019
Piano
Billy Strayhorn redefined jazz with a touch of classical

A versatile composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn was among the most grandiose personalities in American jazz,…

February 5, 2019
Orchestra
The attractive sounds of Nordic Romanticism of Wilhelm Stenhammar

Swedish pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar was one of the few composers who remained faithful to the ideas of Romanticism in…

February 1, 2019
Technologies
Quadraphonic vinyl reveals new Atom Heart Mother details

In the late 1960s, after the stereo sound almost completely replaced the mono format in the recording industry, the…

January 29, 20194 comments
Contemporary Composer
The path to Earth's orbit for Errollyn Wallen's music

A modern composer, songwriter, and singer Errollyn Wallen was recounted by The Observer as a "renaissance woman of…

January 25, 2019
Sitar
Vilayat Khan enriched his sitar technique by giving it human voice

Brilliant sitar player Vilayat Khan is broadly known in India and worldwide as a prominent maestro of the Hindustani…

January 22, 20191 comment
Orchestra
A story of love and friendship in the music of World War I

Frederick Septimus Kelly, a gifted Australian-born musician who spent much of his life in England, was among the…

January 18, 2019
Orchestra
The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the…

January 15, 2019
Classical Guitar
Miguel Llobet delivered flawless skill to future stars of classical guitar worldwide

Miguel Llobet was a Spanish guitar player, teacher, and composer whose contribution to the development of both…

January 11, 2019
Film
The necessity of undramatic humanity in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

A set of 11 short stories collected in the film Coffee and Cigarettes depicts the nostalgic era every older smoker…

January 8, 2019
Big band
Great Depression cut short the extraordinary dance life of McKinney’s Cotton Pickers

Since the very start of the prohibition during the Roaring Twenties, many Americans sought refuge in entertainment…

January 4, 2019
Classical Guitar
The native heart of Peruvian folk as explored by ethnomusicologist Alomía Robles

It has been a little more over a century since the Peruvian composer Alomía Robles crossed the Andes in search of…

January 1, 2019
Santour
Azam Ali's magnificent vocal journeys through languages

In recent decades, the mixing of styles and cultures in popular and classical music has grown into quite a common trend…

December 28, 2018
Choir
Europe worshiped this 12th-century prophet for her visions rather than her music talent

Hildegard von Bingen—German abbess and visionary mystic—was one of the most enigmatic personalities of the Middle Ages…

December 25, 2018
Ravanahatha
The Ravanahatha: from Hela civilization to the primary instrument of Rajasthani folk

The ravanahatha (also known as ravanhatta or rawanhattha) is an ancient stringed musical instrument that is suggested…

December 21, 20181 comment