The music of African American classical composers is rarely performed on concert stages in Europe and the US. Baritone Thomas Hampson wants to change this. The songs speak of being Black and proud, of ...

For ten years, in the lead up to International Women's Day, ABC Classic has celebrated classical music by women across centuries. Here's what's in store for 2026.

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Music history has a funny way of remembering the loud voices while quietly shelving the revolutionary ones. We celebrate Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach without question.Yet ask most people to name a ...

Award-winning Australian composers Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Caitlin Yeo and Alice Chance (L-R) reflect on their careers and hopes for the future.(Deborah Cheetham Fraillon by Stephanie ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least, dusty. It’s ...

If streaming had existed in these classical composers’ lifetimes… would they have actually made any money? Composers like Bach, Handel and Chopin top the most listened to classical composers on ...

In this article, we will discuss whether AI can imitate the 50 greatest classical music composers of all time. To skip our detailed analysis of the nature and scope of the generative AI industry in ...