Composer Niels Gade is as important to the cultural history of Denmark as is the author Hans Christian Andersen. It’s unfortunate that Gade’s music is not as widely recognized beyond his homeland as ...

Further visits to Britain during the early 1830s cemented Mendelssohn’s relationship with the country which he now considered his second home, but with the European tour now effectively at an end he ...

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born in Hamburg in 1809 to an affluent Jewish family, he was considered a child prodigy and throughout his ...

Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. "And where is Fanny?" – that's the question asked by ...

It’s fitting that a man as industrious as German composer Felix Mendelssohn would write not one, but two pieces of music celebrating the anniversary of the printing press. The invention of modern book ...

Rather than look back on a year that most of us would prefer to forget, let's look ahead to the biggest celebration of classical music for almost quarter of a century. In the early 1980s, some bored ...

Next week, Herbert Blomstedt will conduct the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra when they return to Taiwan for the third time to perform at the National Concert Hall and at the Yuanlin Arts Center, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will ...