Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss 50 pieces that changed the course of music history.

Many Christmas standards were not written by Christians. David Lang explains the appeal for him, a Jewish composer of a ...

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked ...

The great classical composers make time accelerate, bend or stand still, by constantly transforming their material. Film composers don’t get this, because time is the one thing they have no ...

The music of Witold Lutosławski belongs to the greatest accomplishments ... of the time the composer created his own very characteristic language and individual form of musical beauty as a result of ...

They chose Leipzig because it has a long, rich musical history unlike that of any other German city: Many of the truly great classical composers lived and worked there. On the international stage, ...

the music heard in that dark – much of it adapted from bits of the classical repertoire – was played live in the orchestra pit. That sound survived the talkies: Hollywood’s composers have ...

Happy Christmas shopping... Featuring 20 of the world’s beloved composers, Classic FM’s Great Composers jigsaw is the perfect Christmas pastime. We teamed up with UK artist and illustrator Sam Osborne ...

Chopin, one of the world's greatest composers was born in ... was taken in 1846 or 1847 according to British classical pianist and composer, Jack Gibbons. The second picture was taken in ...