An interesting case of self-borrowing. Bach took music from this work for his own Mass in B-minor...

Sergei Rachmaninoff was the solo pianist for the world premiere of his third concerto, renowned a...

Debussy's sole completed opera was given its premiere at Paris' Opera Comique on April 30, 1902. ...

Dvorak's Stabat Mater is a work deeply inspired by personal tragedy in the composer's life. Origi...

Vaughan Williams conducted the first performance of his great choral symphony on his 38th birthda...

The Scherzo capriccioso was composed in the same period (1883-84) as the Symphony No.7, Op.70 and...

Vaughan Williams' setting of four poems from George Herbert's 1633 collection, The Temple: Sacred...

Foote's 20-minute gem was actually pieced together from a couple of earlier, unpublished string o...

Otto Taubmann's classic vocal score of Mozart's Coronation Mass was first issued in the early 20t...

Joseph Haydn's eleventh mass - entitled Missa in Angustiis or 'Mass in Troubled Times' was compos...

Verdi received a request in November of 1869 from the Viceroy of Egypt to compose a commemorative...

Composed between August 4 and October 25 of 1897, A Hero's Song was at first entitled A Hero's Li...