Many different forms of music flourished during the Classical period - works such as symphonies, concertos, solo pieces and… opera! This piece of music was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ...

Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music. The composer famously said it was "very loud and noisy and completely ...

Music from the Classical period is mainly based on the primary ... between key musical ideas or sections within their pieces. For example, if the first key melody was in the tonic key, the second ...

one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, 14 masses and 26 operas, ...

The Romantic period ... to music, giving his works references to other aspects of life - for example, his 'Pastoral' Symphony No. 6 describes countryside scenes. As well as symphonies, the tone poem ...

The wheels are in motion on a Polish Frédéric Chopin biopic, while a film on Antonio Vivaldi began shooting in Rome last fall ...