German composer Volker Bertelmann was named Film Composer of the Year at the Ghent Film Festival's prestigious World ...

Wolfgang Rihm, one of the most influential German composers of the post-World War II generation, died on Friday at the age of 72, his wife said. Born in the western German city of Karlsruhe, Rihm was ...

Aribert Reimann, whose powerful operas based on works by William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Federico Garcia Lorca and others made him one of the most significant opera composers of the late 20th and ...

You can name a bunch of Austrian and German composers, right? At the least, you’ve probably heard of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Schumann, and Telemann. Now, quick—name ...

It’ll seem like a reunion of German composers from the Romantic era when the Elgin Symphony Orchestra takes stage for its “Brahms Symphony No. 2? Concert at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 and 3 p.m. Jan. 9, 2022, ...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - With his soft sparkling eyes and modest build, 35-year-old German composer and clarinetist Jorg Widmann hardly looks like a man who wants to put a trumpet player through ...

One of Germany’s leading youth symphonic wind orchestras will be joining Illinois Wesleyan University’s wind ensemble for a ...

York Hoeller, a German composer, will receive the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the university has announced. Mr. Hoeller is a professor of music composition at ...

Music commentator Miles Hoffman talks about the things some famous classical composers were not thankful for. Composers have also felt as though the world should be thankful for them. Over the years, ...