His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century. By A.J. Goldmann A.J. Goldmann is an American journalist who writes about European ...

A leading composer and conductor of opera in Germany, Manfred Gurlitt’s Jewish ancestry led to his music being banned. Emigrating to Japan, Gurlitt became a pioneer of opera and Western classical ...

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— Learn about one of the greatest composers of German opera as the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner is celebrated at the November series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, ...

Music is the Germans’ favorite art, and their approach to it has never been more aptly put than in the motto once adorning one of their most famous concert halls: “Res severa veruni gaud turn” ...

ensembleNEWSRQ closes its ninth season with one of its biggest concerts, an evening-length performance of German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s “Jagden und Formen” (“Hunts and Forms”) at the Sarasota Opera ...

The late composer Robert Ashley (1930–2014) produced some of the most difficult music of the 20th century — and now also of the 21st. Crash is written for six voices and divided into six sections.

Because music is so important to Lieder-loving Germans, music is also important to the German Government. For generations opera houses and music schools have been supported by the state. When, in 1933 ...

Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences. Should emphasis be placed on the opera's comical elements, or is it to be seen as more of a serious play about German ...

Aribert Reimann, whose powerful operas based on works by William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Federico Garcia Lorca and others made him one of the most significant opera composers of the late 20th and ...