Musicologist accepts $725,000 damages from US university

In his final opera, Jacques Offenbach made E.T.A. Hoffmann, the most famous poet of the Romantic period, into his main character. The poet explores the threshold between reality and fantasy in a fascinating way in […]

The US period instrument specialist Robert Levin has an interesting theory for Mozart’s ceaseless output of new piano concertos. He tells Richard Fairman of the FT: ‘I imagine Mozart as being restlessly creative, with a […]

News has reached us of the death of Ernst Mahle, a German composer from Stuttgart who migrated to Brazil in 1962. For half a century Mahle (sic) was artistic director and conductor of the Escola […]