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A standard piano keyboard could put female (and smaller-handed) players at a distinct disadvantage, according to new Stanford ...

He may have been the King of Pop, but recent evidence has come to the light that Michael Jackson was working on several instrumental and classical music compositions shortly before he died. US ...

As far as Saint-Saëns is concerned, the two big works of 1886 were the Organ Symphony and the Carnival of the Animals. It's one of his most popular works, but Saint-Saëns premiered his ‘grand ...

Shostakovich was most definitely a light-and-shade composer. On the one hand, we have the intense, expansive orchestral works, full of grand political gestures and complex musical ideas. On the other, ...

It's iconic, it's British, it's a seafaring classic - Ronald Binge's Sailing By is everything light music should be. This iconic British tune was composed in 1963 by Ronald Binge. It's one of his many ...

Every weekday from 4pm, Margherita Taylor provides the perfect soundtrack to your afternoon, keeping you company through to the evening with some brilliant classical music. Margherita offers all the ...

11. The rise of the Nazis In the early 1930s, Strauss did not join the Nazi party. For reasons of expediency, however, he initially cooperated with the early Nazi regime in the hope that it would ...

Meet the Mozart family - the people that were closest to Wolfgang himself throughout his life. In 1756 Leopold Mozart was 37, his wife one year younger and they had daughter who was not yet five. The ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...

Musicians are a mischievous lot – as evidenced by the nickname ascribed to John Rutter’s A Gaelic Blessing. No sooner had it been composed in 1978 than it was being referred to as ‘A Garlic Dressing’.

'The Watermill' was written in 1958 and originally composed for oboe and string orchestra – though it can also be played on clarinet. The undulating orchestral accompaniment evokes the gentle flow of ...