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

“You had Wagner and (Franz) Liszt and some other folks on one side, and then you had composers like Brahms and Clara on the other, saying that they wanted to be much more grounded in ...

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 ...

In 1878 a young Manhattan patrician named Templeton Strong turned down a proffered job with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe ...

Leda Steele was one of the most notable figures in the music circles in Oklahoma and the Southwest, earning an international ...

and the orchestral ‘poems’ of Franz Liszt, with their lyrical reveries conjuring scenes of men weeping on mountaintops. The response of Richard Wagner was withering. “The advocates of an absolute ...

The deeply introspective piece was first inspired by a premonition Liszt had of Wagner’s death when in Venice in 1882 in response to the striking visions of funeral gondolas on the lagoons of ...

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 ...

He became known for his strong but sensitive fingers and warm musical sympathy, winning prizes at the 1959 Liverpool International Concerto Competition and the 1960 International Liszt Contest in ...

Schumann himself would not have liked to be taken as representative of Wagner's or Liszt's kind of "Zukunftsmusik". In a letter to Joseph Joachim of October 7, 1853, he referred to Liszt as "Judas ...

A concert begins with a series of reassuring rituals. First, the quick clip across the plaza, the flourishing of tickets, the ...