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  • Chiquinha Gonzaga by Angelo Bonito

    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...
  • Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai by Dr. Glazunov

    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...
  • Music Manuscript by Alî Ufukî

    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...
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre by François de Troy

    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, as...
  • Napoléon Coste

    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...
  • Erhu Players by Wahyu Srikaryadi

    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...
  • Billy Strayhorn

    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,...
  • Musiken by Georg Pauli

    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 the...
  • Atom Heart Mother LP

    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...
  • Errollyn Wallen

    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...
  • Vilayat Khan by Berry van Boekel

    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...
  • Frederick Septimus Kelly CD cover

    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...
  • The view of Zittau in 1904

    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...
  • Miguel Llobet by Ramon Casas

    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 classical...
  • Iggy Pop and Tom Waits

    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 might...
  • The Cotton Club, New York City

    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 clubs...
  • Colca Condor by Colegota

    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...
  • Loga Ramin Torkian and Azam Ali

    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...
  • Illumination of Choirs of Angels from the Liber Scivias by Hildegard von Bingen

    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....
  • Sunset in Pushkar, Rajasthan by Dr. Glazunov

    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 to...

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