Born in 1681, Georg Philip Telemann would inevitably suffer from comparisons with one of the towering figures of western Classical music, born just four years later: Johann Sebastian Bach.
Neville Cardus wrote in 1927 – just 30 years after Brahms’s death – that he could ‘think of no co...
Despite his present-day obscurity, during his lifetime Leopold Kozeluch was held in just as high ...
Giovanni Maria Trabaci is certainly not the best-known name to emerge out of the music of the Ita...
These days Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is mainly associated with his later works. Born in 1935 he...