Music

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest unfold.

A folk favourite loved by Jane Austen and Abraham Lincoln, ‘The Irishman’ has revolutionary roots that have been forgotten.

One of the first – and greatest – composers of English Protestant church music died on 23 November 1585.

Igor Stravinsky’s ‘shockingly contemporary’ The Rite of Spring ​​​​premiered on 29 May 1913.

Josephine Baker’s induction into the Pantheon is both a cause for celebration and a prompt to explore France’s progressive values.

As music became an art for all the people of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven became the hero and the symbol of an aspiring German nation.

The Met opened its doors on 22 October 1883.

The power and perils of reconstructing the music of Napoleon's time.

Though originally set to music, we almost always encounter the Ancient Greek epics as mute texts. But now their songs can be heard again.

Historians set great store by what people heard in the past, but what about those things they misheard?