Etiket: composers
The composer’s wife
The fact that the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – world famous for his symphonies, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker – was married is simply omitted in many overviews of…
‘As a conductor you are the composer’s advocate’
It started about thirty years ago, on the day that conductor Jules van Hessen turned to the audience and said good evening. He conducted Mahler’s monumental Second Symphony in an…
Afromodernism gives space to black composers who were also part of the rebellious avant-garde
The musicians of the Ensemble Modern with founder Dietmar Wiesner sitting on a rail.Statue Vincent Stefan Take any survey of contemporary classical music and you’ll come across names from composers…