Beethoven changed over time, so his works are usually divided into three periods. His first period was more conventional, but his second period introduced a number of innovations in such things as the size, emotional force, and variation in key…

Every major Romantic Period composer was influenced by Beethoven in some way, but selecting just a few of them reveals the variety of ways in which that influence was felt. Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Wagner were very different…

Adolphe Adam was a French composer of light operas and ballets, with equal success. He was born in Paris on 24th July, 1803, the son of the composer, pianist and teacher Louis Adam. Although not encouraged by his father to…