‘Unaccountably Odd’
'Unaccountably Odd': a musical and sexual adventurer, possibly a racist, and a composer ahead of his time, PERCY…
Category: Pleasures Of Music
The Strange Adventures and Alluring Music of Alessandro Stradella
An exhaustive appreciation of Alessandro Stradella, one of the most enigmatic, colorful and gifted composers of the 17th…
A Day With Robert Schumann
IN this month's PLEASURES OF MUSIC, an 1884 report by May Byron on A DAY WITH ROBERT SCHUMANN.…
A Day With Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Ever wonder what it would have been like to spend a day with, say, Felix Mendelssoh? Especially a…
Rossini on Rossini, Byron on Rossini
From his 1886 book From Mozart to Marvio V1: Reminiscences of a Half Century, Louis Engel discloses the…
The Passionate Style
Italian composer, gambist, and singer Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi is often regarded as revolutionary in that his work marked…