For the last 180 years, it's been tough for symphony composers to get out from under Beethoven's shadow. We've dealt with lots...

Unsung Symphonies is thrilled to welcome its second guest post, this time from NYU Music Professor Michael Beckerman . Professor Beckerman...

Today we discuss a composer from the turn of the 19th Century whose four symphonies had until relatively recently fallen off the face of the...

This should sound like a gutsy way to start a symphony even to the most jaded listeners among you: In performance, the effect will be e...

There are a lot of symphonies out there. And the big guys — Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak, Brahms, Mahler, Sibelius, and Shostakovich — ...