composers

5 min read 2023-01-14 22:05:45

Great C Major Symphony by Franz Schubert

Interior of the Gewandhaus concert hall, 1845, location of the premiere of the Great C Major Symphony / Illustrirte Zeitung, 19. April 1845, p. 253

5 min read 2022-12-10 22:46:54

The 19-year stretch between 1932 and 1951 gave us 19 top hit Christmas songs. “The Little Drummer Boy” was written in 1941. When I decided to

4 min read 2022-12-07 21:30:16

On December 3, 1947, A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. It was the third full-length play by Tennessee

5 min read 2022-11-30 23:30:43

The following is a guest post by Music Division Specialist Loras John Schissel who has compiled letters and diary entries from Ned Rorem illuminating

8 min read 2022-11-20 03:49:28

Initial trumpet notes from Fanfare for the Common Man, at Copland’s Memorial Garden, Tanglewood Music Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts / Francis

6 min read 2022-10-08 21:04:24

Háry János statue in Szent István Square, Szekszárd, Tolna County, Hungary / Pal Farkas (1992) via Wikimedia Commons Zoltán Kodály is a

4 min read 2022-10-06 20:45:42

In the following guest post, Music Division Archivist Dr. Stephanie Akau and Music Division Archives Processing Technician Dr. Rachel McNellis

3 min read 2022-09-26 22:30:18

Unidentified photographer. Rae Robertson and Ethel Bartlett, undated. Box-Folder 5/32, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson Music and Other Papers, Music

4 min read 2022-09-10 19:15:58

Tchaikovsky as a young man (1870s) I came across some old notes I wrote about my community orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Suite from

4 min read 2022-09-08 20:00:21

Jane Cross, photographer. Destiny Meadows with the Sammy Nestico Papers, 2022. The following is a guest post from Destiny Meadows, a Pruett Fellow at

8 min read 2022-08-27 10:43:00

I started writing my first book of musical theatre analysis essays in 1994, and it was published in 1996. It was just a few years after we had

4 min read 2022-08-22 20:00:24

The following is a guest post from Archives Processing Technician Melissa Capozio Jones. Unidentified photograph. Ross Lee Finney, undated. Box 2,

13 min read 2022-08-20 20:48:55

Gottschalk tour poster, 1860s Louis Moreau Gottschalk became the first internationally famous American piano virtuoso and composer. Given his

3 min read 2022-08-12 21:52:33

It is with great pleasure that we announce a newly available online resource at the Library of Congress: the entirety of the Music Division’s

1 min read 2022-08-02 22:00:14

Composer Theodore Shapiro chats with Film.Music.Media on reteaming with Ben Stiller for Apple TV+’s EMMY®-nominated hit series,