The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.

He was popular among young society women, and courted some of them. Tchaikovsky became quite infatuated ... and made him write hysteria-ridden music. It certainly troubled him at times, but ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – ...

“Some are completely over the top, a kind of Monty Python ... in his life and his love, and his music is thus reduced to the sound of suffering.” Tchaikovsky is widely accepted today as ...

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and Tchaikovsky.

The Nutcracker is responsible for so many famous pieces of classical music played in popular culture that many people will recognise them ...