Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The composer Wolfgang Rihm sits in his apartment. Rihm, one of the most influential German composers of the post-World War II ...

When David Foster Wallace hanged himself last year, mourning quickly gave way to talk of an unfinished novel. But while we wait for the book, I've been taking comfort in Wallace's early, exuberant ...

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 ...

He couldn’t avoid church music, but that doesn’t mean he had to totally embrace it. Writing the score for Edward Berger’s thriller “Conclave,” set inside the Vatican during the election of a new pope, ...

Is there a more sunny and less ego-driven violinist than Israeli-born Gil Shaham? He makes even the most virtuosic music seem so effortless and natural, it’s easy to forget how rare and difficult an ...

On Friday, the Riverwest gallery brings German composer Marcus Schmickler to the Miramar Theater thanks to a grant from the Argosy Contemporary Music Fund. If you're wondering what Milwaukee loses ...

In honor of what would have been renowned German composer Johann Sebastian Bach's 334th birthday, Google's doodle team created its first AI-powered doodle for the search engine homepage Thursday. The ...

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 ...