As Hungarian Gyorgy Kurtag, who is widely considered one of the greatest living classical composers, turns 100 on Thursday, ...

For centuries, female composers were thought to avoid the symphonic form. Not so. Here are some of the best symphonies by female composers ...

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Classical music can feel daunting to dig into if you haven't had a lot of exposure to the genre or didn’t grow up playing an instrument. With so many terms, styles, composers and performers, it can be ...

"Accessible" can be a dirty word in contemporary classical music. For decades, composers have outfitted their works with gnarly tangles of complexity, and heaven forbid if there's a tune you can hum.

Any composer's relationship to music is intense, but Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose debut opera, Hildegard, receives its world premiere at the LA Opera this week, ratchets that intensity up to a higher, ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...