The 90-minute show will take the audience through the different sounds of Romanticism, from pieces first heard 200 years ago ...

Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner. '… a richly detailed ...

looked through it, found it unpleasant and incomprehensible (the real Wagner-Nietzsche war was to come later on), and quietly washed his hands of Nietzsche. Frau Cosima and Papa Liszt wrote him ...

Within a year, she had left her husband and joined Liszt in Geneva where Blandine, the first of their three children, was born. She died in 1867. Their second child was Cosima, born in 1837, destined ...

He is referring to the help the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit, gave his government in dispatching an armed rebellion nearly four years ago. But Mr Bouba could equally have more personal ...

This region in Germany, also known as Luther Country, is home to renowned composers such as Bach, Brahms, Liszt and Wagner and the poets Goethe and Schiller, the Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach ...

Liszt was one of the greatest of his time ... and combined these with a direct approach to composing. Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, ...

Handel with care. Make a Liszt and check it twice. High notes can shatter Philip Glass. When Richard listens to German opera, he’s known to Wagner his finger. Within each person is a good ...

A concert begins with a series of reassuring rituals. First, the quick clip across the plaza, the flourishing of tickets, the awkward jostle of knees and coats. Then comes the hush between the ...

The event will feature a programme of music performed entirely with one hand, including works by Wagner, Liszt, Schubert, ...

Joachim's compositions display intimate knowledge of the works of Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms, yet he was no mere imitator. Joachim's style, classically conceived yet seasoned with ...