An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get “news” from ...

2026 looked to be a renaissance year for the composer Florence Price, a Black woman who made music in Chicago that is now being championed by the classical music world more than 70 years after her ...

On April 11, 2025, Hyperion Records will re-release Sir Stephen Hough’s complete Chopin Waltzes, now featuring Sir Stephen’s new recording of Chopin’s Waltz in A minor (Valse). This previously unheard ...

Musicians might draw on memories of the past as they improvise something new. Amy Beach says she remembered a time hearing waltzes in Vienna as she created her Five Improvisations for piano. Step into ...

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