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...

Meet Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

by | Oct 7, 2025 | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

  Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, possibly more than any other composer in history, seemed to arrive as a fully formed masterful composer when he was still in his teens. Before he was yet twenty, he had written his masterful string Octet, his ravishing incidental...