The theme of the San Francisco Symphony's "Innocence Undone" festival -- the ostensible triumph of knowing decadence in Austro-German musical culture between Wagner's day and the interwar years of the ...

When the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner finished writing his Third Symphony in 1873, he dedicated it to Richard Wagner, the creator of the monumental Ring cycle and arguably the preeminent figure in ...

There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard ...

Our era takes a certain perverse pride in its decadence. Last weekend’s all-Wagner concerts by the Dallas Symphony at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center with music director Jaap van Zweden conducting ...

The Kansas University Symphony Orchestra will usher in its fall season with the sounds of Richard Wagner, Franz Joseph Haydn and Antonin Dvorák 3 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Lied Center. Under the direction ...

There is an agreeably seditious mischievousness about the combination of composers Gerard Schwarz put together for this week’s Seattle Symphony concerts. Wagner and Mendelssohn: the man who declared ...

This part of our exclusive interview with Apocalyptica goes deep into the art form of music. The dudes of Apocalyptica are music theory and classical experts, so we delved into our brains to pull out ...

It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

It's possible to hear a musician perform regularly for many years without knowing everything he's capable of. Who could have guessed, before Tuesday's season-ending concert by the Marin Symphony, that ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...