At #4 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is George Gershwin with his wonderful An American in Paris. George Gershwin composed Tin Pan Alley musicals in the early teens and
At #4 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is George Gershwin with his wonderful An American in Paris. George Gershwin composed Tin Pan Alley musicals in the early teens and
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov makes his first and only appearance on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical list at #9 for his symphonic suite, Sheherazade. Much like my enjoyment of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and
Coming in at #11 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is Antonin Dvorak with his lovely, delightful Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22, which he composed in 1875
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1909 as part of the tour of the United States he had planned for the fall of that year. He had
Franz Liszt comes in at #19 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with Les Preludes, and with it the birth of the symphonic poem. He didn’t name it a symphonic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky appears once again on my list of Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his first attempt at a ballet, in 1876 with Swan Lake. I can’t say how
Gustav Mahler comes in at #22 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical Music with his amazing Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection,” though Mahler was not the one who
This is my first entry for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, my favorite composer. I won’t get into the more historical details until later. There are several pieces of his in my
Time/Life had a series out in the 70s and 80s called “Great Men of Music.” I forget when and how I got several of the series, but sometime in the
I’ve known about George Enescu since high school, having listened to his Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 and liking it back then. As a Romanian, I love seeing Romanian composers out