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Classical Music
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Composer of the Month: Henry Purcell

The English composer’s talent and versatility flourished in a city and era with a huge appetite for the arts.

November 21, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Gaetano Donizetti

From comedy to dark tragedy, the extraordinarily prolific Donizetti proved himself to be the master of all operatic forms.

October 10, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Hildegard von Bingen

The 12th-century nun’s influential work represents an important development in the history of music.

September 17, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Celebrating the German composer whose farsighted innovations forever changed our approaches to composing and listening.

August 31, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Emmanuel Chabrier

French composer Emmanuel Chabrier might be best known for his vivid musical portrait of Spain but Wagner was his true inspiration.

July 14, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Gabriel Fauré

What with love, war and several day jobs, it’s remarkable that the French composer found time to compose.

May 12, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Sergei Prokofiev

Given his great success in the West, why did Prokofiev return to the grip of Stalin in the USSR? Daniel Jaffé offers an explanation.

April 23, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Mozart

It was his understanding of human emotions that made the 18th-century composer a true operatic genius.

January 27, 2021
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

Composer of the Month: Barbara Strozzi

Hannah French explores the life, music and mysteries of a remarkable Venetian whose exquisite vocal works are without parallel.

January 15, 2021
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Lili Boulanger

The first woman to win the Prix de Rome, the short-lived Lili Boulanger left many questions tantalisingly unanswered.

October 16, 2020
Classical Music
features

Composer of the Month: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Best known today for La Serva Padrona and his Stabat Mater, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s career is a prime example of how 18th-century music was closely associated with nobility and power.

September 4, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
features

Composer of the Month: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Employment within the court of Louis XIV allowed Jean-Baptiste Lully to lavish his talents on creating spectacular works for the stage, as Jan Smaczny explains.

April 30, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
features

Composer of the Month: Georges Bizet

Despite a lack of success in his own lifetime, notably with Carmen, Bizet soon became hailed as an operatic master, as George Hall explains.

March 17, 2020

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