Meet Isaac Albéniz – His Life and Work

by | Oct 31, 2025 | Isaac Albeniz

Isaac Albéniz and his mentor Enrique Granados can be thought of as the aristocrats of Spanish music. They are also responsible for bringing Spanish music into the mainstream of European classical music. The music of Albéniz is sophisticated, warm, and often hauntingly...

Meet Alexander Borodin – His Life and Work

by | Oct 24, 2025 | Alexander Borodin

Alexander Borodin (1833–1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and accomplished chemist. A member of The Five, a group of nationalist composers, Borodin is best known for his opera Prince Igor, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia, and his string quartets....

Meet Robert Schumann

by | Oct 21, 2025 | Robert Schumann

  Robert Schumann is most often remembered for the mental hardships he endured, which led him to live out his final years in a mental asylum. But much of his music expresses a heady, high joy that is hardly present in the work of any other composer. Much of that...

Meet Frédéric François Chopin

by | Oct 14, 2025 | Frederic Chopin, Uncategorized

People tend to think of Chopin as the ultimate romantic – a composer of music that seems to speak of languid infatuation, heartbreak, and love. Yet there is much more to his music than that. He was, in fact, a composer of piano music that was ahead of its time...