“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 ...

Music has inspired architecture in many different ways, whether it be indirectly by influencing how a project is approached by an architect, or more obviously in the final form the building takes. Its ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stories of child prodigies in the classical genre have a long history, going back to some of the greatest composers in the 18th and 19th centuries. As well as Mozart, undoubtedly the most famous young ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...