Meet Eugène Ysaÿe, the king of the violin

Charles Villiers Stanford: has history judged the composer unfairly?

Antonio Vivaldi: so much more than The Four Seasons

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Johann Christian Bach: The ‘London Bach’, Mozart’s mentor and a pioneer of the Classical style

How the Dreyfus affair caused Grieg to boycott Paris – and receive death threats as a result

Michael Praetorius: composer, organist, theorist, Renaissance man extraordinaire

10 best Renaissance composers

François Couperin: celebrated Baroque composer and harpsichord virtuoso

Stockhausen: Exploring the life and legacy of the avant-garde visionary

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Dieterich Buxtehude, the great Danish composer who inspired Bach

Charles-Valentin Alkan: the hermit who composed devilishly difficult piano works

Pietro Mascagni: How the Italian composer should be remembered for more than Cavalleria rusticana

George Onslow: has history judged the Anglo-French composer unfairly?

Heinrich Schütz: Was he the most important German composer before Bach?

Albéric Magnard: unveiling the passion and tragedy of France’s forgotten composer