The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was published as part of Yeats' first collection of poems. It has been set by several different com...

The song "Kennst du das Land" by the character of Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" has inspired..

Not your typical "classical music for beginners" list. We've selected some of our favourite works, and we hope you'll love them, too!

Washington, DC-based composer and pianist Jessica Krash's music has appeared in many different kinds of performance contexts...

The poem "Mandoline" by Paul Verlaine has been turned into song form by several composers. Learn about the poem and listen...

"Come Away, Death" is a song from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. It is sung by the fool Feste - a fool being a clever peasant or commoner...

Austrian composer Franz Schubert completed over 600 secular vocal works - most of which were Lieder (pronounced like "leader"). The word...