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The audience voiced disapproval after Wagner gets the AI treatment. It is believed that the idea formed when budget constraints changed the original plan to present Wagner’s 10 Bayreuth works, plus ...

If you’ve never heard of Victor Borge, you must watch all of these clips immediately. In the Sunday Times you'll find a feature on James Thierree, grandson of the great Charlie Chaplin, who was a ...

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Beethoven’s music is all the more amazing because he wrote so much of it when he was almost or totally deaf. At the end of the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the composer had to be turned around to ...

Bach's arrangements of hymn tunes found their way into cantatas, organ preludes, motets and other pieces. Find out more about them here. A chorale is usually a simple and catchy melody to which a hymn ...

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If you’re looking for a piece of music that divides opinion, look no further than this work. Beloved by many for its Rachmaninov-esque melodies and nostalgic sound-world, it’s also remembered for its ...

Not content with mere rings to mark their engagement in 1888, Edward Elgar and his wife-to-be Alice exchanged artistic gifts too. She had given him a poem that she had written a few years earlier, ...

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3. At Leipzig Conservatory A fortuitous encounter with a family friend, the violin virtuoso Ole Bull, resulted in the 15-year-old Grieg's immediate transfer to the Leipzig Conservatory. Yet in his own ...