A rare waltz manuscript believed to be composed by Frédéric Chopin was discovered at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York ...

It wasn’t always like that, despite his three Orders of Lenin and other Soviet honours, for Shostakovich’s life happened to run in tandem with the Communist regime and he frequently fell foul of the ...

The importance of Shostakovich's music means that it features regularly in CD Review's Building a Library feature. This page presents a sequence of Building a Library Bach features dating back to ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered.

Lemn Sissay investigates what it was like writing music under Stalin's oppressive regime. Shostakovich was a 20th Century Russian composer and pianist, who spent most of his career working under ...

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Chopin usually signed manuscripts that were gifts, but this one is unsigned, suggesting that he changed his mind and withheld it.

Content sponsored by AEG Presents Rocky Mountains. The 1978 concert film The Last Waltz wasn’t just a music movie; it captured a defining moment that represented the crossroads of rock ...

Singer–songwriter WALTZ has definitely ... Star Awards For Music. As he starts his journey as a solo artist, WALTZ has debuted with “Bahaghari” for Viva Films and 2 years later, he was ...

In the patiently probing movement that grew organically from those opening bars of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin ... took the full measure of the work, with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen ...