Today we take a closer look at the life of Clara Schumann, one of the most well known piano performers of the Romantic era.

Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer of the Baroque era and was very well known during his time as a performer and a teacher. One of the types of music that he like to compose was called “concerto”. A concerto is a type of composition...

A brief history of the music clefs we use today. From the medieval period up through the modern era the music clefs we use in sheet music have gone though many different changes.

Fanny Mendelssohn was a german composer and pianist of the early romantic era. Born in 1805, she was the eldest of four children of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn. Her father was a very successful banker which meant that the family was...

Classical violinist Joseph Henry Douglass helped empower the Black community through music and education at a time when Southern lawmakers were pushing back against the progress of Reconstruction.

In this video, Nova takes kids on an adventure through the history of classical music, introducing them to famous composers like Mozart, Bach, and Tchaikovsky. The video explores how these composers revolutionized music and paved the way...

Meet the woman who gathered the largest army the Roman Empire ever faced.



Boudica was the Queen of the Iceni tribe, located in what is now Norfolk, England. She led an uprising of Celtic...

The Greek poetess Sappho from the Isle of Lesbos is the most important female lyricist of the classical age. She worshipped women and often addressed her work to beautiful ladies. Although her definite sexuality will remain a mystery, it...

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Until the 50s, the production of music was only possible with classical instruments. But during the time of rapid changes after World War 2, the old principles were about to change with the invention of the synthesizer. Follow Indy and...

Nowadays, Jane Austen is one of the world's most well known female authors. Just about everybody has heard of her books like Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility. But when her books were published for the first time, her name was...

Adam Smith was one of the first men who explored economic connections in England and made clear, in a time when Mercantilism reigned, that the demands of the market should determine the economy and not the state. In his books Smith was a...

We're going way back for this one, before Classical History, before the Iron Age, all the way back to the Bronze Age! Talkin' about the First Babylonian Empire, and how Hammurabi made it the greatest empire Mesopotamia had ever seen, and...