Read more: 30 of the greatest classical music composers of all time. Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) CPE Bach was the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, the patriarch of Western ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his “60 Year Of Music World Tour”, in Milan, Italy.

In the new Oxford History of Western Music, ... December 7, 2004 • In 1685, within a period of eight months, three master composers were born: Scarlatti, Handel and Bach.

She’s the first identifiable woman composer in the history of Western Music. German Benedictine abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, who spent most of her 80-plus years shut away in an obscure hilltop ...

Asian composers who write in Western classical musical forms, like symphonies and operas, tend to have a few things in common. Many learned European styles from an early age, and finished their ...

Olly Wilson, an adventurous composer who integrated African, African-American and electronic rhythms, riffs and sounds into Western classical music conventions, died March 12 in Oakland, California.

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

At Western Michigan University, performers and composers are blending instruments and technology to push the boundaries of traditional musical performance. SPLICE Institute brings artists on the ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his “60 Year Of Music World Tour”, in Milan, Italy.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died.