<p>England's main cultural ties with the Continent historically have been with France and the Netherlands. This course will examine the relationships and contrasts between the music of these countries

<p>Franz Peter Schubert (1797 – 1828) was an Austrian composer whose life straddled the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, he was 31 when he died, he left behind a huge

<p>The orchestra is a large and very complicated instrument which has grown since Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Beethoven and Wagner enlarged the orchestra and Mahler in his Symphony No. 8 pushed the

<p>Beethoven’s nine symphonies are as beloved as they are ubiquitous. You would be hard-pressed to find someone that hasn’t heard the opening to the dramatic Fifth Symphony, or the choral sublimity of

<p>In the great pantheon of Western art composers, where are the women? We may be ultimately familiar with Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, but what do we know of Bingen and Beach? Historically, women

<p>Between 1892 and 1941, Richard Strauss wrote some of the world’s most important operatic masterworks amidst several periods of national and global upheaval. Tracing the evolution of Strauss’s

<p>What is a symphony? For more than two centuries the symphony has represented the summit of a composer’s ambition. But what actually defines a symphony, and how do you listen to one? Learning more