Plus, looking forward to Early Music Day, celebrated every year on 21st March as JS Bach's birthday (on the Old Style calendar, naturally!) and spring equinox. Vlad will have plenty of music by Papa ...

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Young pianists of Asian descent delivered outstanding performances at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which concluded in Warsaw on Tuesday.

Some pianists don’t just hit notes; they make the music feel alive. This list collects the Best Classical Pianists, musicians who made people feel those notes when they played. Whether they played a ...

When I first heard Scott Joplin’s “Bethena,” I was a college freshman and my friend Robert was playing it on the piano in a common room. The college’s century-old Steinway was appallingly out of tune, ...

On April 11, 2025, Hyperion Records will re-release Sir Stephen Hough’s complete Chopin Waltzes, now featuring Sir Stephen’s new recording of Chopin’s Waltz in A minor (Valse). This previously unheard ...

More than 170 years after his death, a new piece of music by composer Frédéric Chopin was discovered in the archives of The Morgan Library and Museum. The surprising discovery, made by curator Dr.

A previously unknown musical manuscript, possibly by Frederic Chopin, rests in a display case after it was discovered at The Morgan Library & Museum, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in New York. It's ...

NEW YORK — The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: “Chopin ...