A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

This is it, the big one - DA DA DA DUUUUUUN! Arguably the most famous piece of classical music, the symphony that surely secured Beethoven in the list of greatest composers of all time. The opening ...

There aren't too many musicians who can tell their moms that the King came up after a performance and offered them a full-time job. That actually happened to Joseph Martin Kraus. He left Germany to ...

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