This week we celebrate the classical heritage of Poland, with Romantic instrumental virtuosity and twentieth century ...

Open any compendium book about classical music and you’ll find an exhaustive list of male composers. In fact, there were many more male composers than female in the course of classical music history, ...

October 5th is the annual observance of World Teachers Day!! The celebration of the contributions and influences of teachers is the perfect opportunity to listen to music by baroque era composers who ...

We know Braille as a system of writing for the blind, but it was created for music, too. Louis Braille was a musician as well as a scholar, and his system made it possible to read and write music by ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least, dusty. It’s ...

In September 2015, when ABC Classic tracked who composed the music being played on air, female composers received a minuscule share of 2.2%. This galvanised the network to be more deliberate in how it ...