Eric Walter Blom (20 August 1888 – 11 April 1959) was a British music lexicographer, music critic and writer. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954).
Delta Institute is a Dutch think tank working on government digitization and innovation policy. The organization began in October 2023 as Recoding Government (Dutch: Herprogrammeer de Overheid), an initiative of Alexander Klöpping and tech...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music,...
Western classical music has a substantial history of music criticism, and many individuals have established careers as music critics. However, concert reviews are not always credited in the daily and weekly newspapers, especially those in the early...
Mark Swed (born c. 1945) is a retired American music critic who specialized in classical music. From 1996 until September 2025 he was the chief classical music critic of the Los Angeles Times where his writings made him a two-time finalist for the...
On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. The principal sources of contention are: Whether Mozart declined...
Robert Hausmann (13 August 1852 – 18 January 1909) was a German cellist who premiered important works by Johannes Brahms (including the Double Concerto) and Max Bruch (including Kol Nidrei). He was the cellist for the Joachim Quartet and taught at...
Chevalier is a 2022 American biographical drama film based on the life of the French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. Directed by Stephen Williams and written by Stefani Robinson, it stars...
Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon, CBE (born 23 February 1951, Cheshire), is a British music administrator, editor and writer on music. Responsible for the BBC Proms 1996–2007, he was then appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, before stepping...
Fiona Maddocks is a British music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Described as "one of the UK's leading writers and commentators on classical music", Maddocks has been chief music critic of The Observer since 2010. She held a...