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 ...

“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 ...

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 – ...

“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.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has cast a deep shadow this year over the International Tchaikovsky ... borders in music.” A female musician from China said, “This competition is famous in China ...