Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate his “Eroica” Symphony No. 3 to the great man that Napoleon had shown promise to become. But when he turned out to be more of a tyrant, Beethoven changed ...

The compilation has many stellar names and compositions such as Franz Schubert's Symphony No 6 in C Major D 589, as well as George Gershwin's classic evergreen Summertime, performed here by June Kraus ...

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

Piano tutor and Lecturer, Sydney Conservatorium Music, University of Sydney In our series Decoding the music masterpieces, music experts explain key works of classical music. Without question, the ...