The Classical Music Pages

The Classical Music Pages


This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links.
If it's your first visit, please take a moment to read the User's Guide.

This project was created by Matthew Boynick, a young orchestra conductor.
If you would be interested in helping to develop this site, please contact me.
I would like to thank all contributors, especially Betsy Schwarm who contributed program notes for over 125 works.


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Music is often based on or related to literature and painting. More information about these fine arts can be found at the

This site is part of
The Classical Music Web Ring
The free linking service hosted by OrchestraNET
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Without the computer expertise of
Sepp Nothaft and Heinz Junkes
this project would not have been possible.
Heinz Junkes' (Webmaster) Note:
The Classical Music Pages are hosted on a server of the PP&B group at the
Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Society.
This is non-commercial cultural contribution to the Internet community.

This project was created by Matthew Boynick.
© 1 February 1996
Suggestions, Corrections, Comments
Last Revision - 10 October 2000