Which young composer did Robert and Clara Schumann take into their home?

Nineteenth-century society saw a few women make careers as professional musicians.

A fugue is a contrapuntal composition built from iterations of and responses to a single musical subject.

A fugue is a contrapuntal composition built from iterations of and responses to a single musical subject.

English composers adopted the Italian madrigal and developed it into a native form.

Which composer developed a sonata style that has been continuously valued as strikingly individual and meaningful?

The symphonic poem was created in the nineteenth century.

Women began to play prominent roles in the performance of music both in the home and at court during the Renaissance.

The expansion and reworking of a theme within a composition is called thematic development.

The expansion and reworking of a theme within a composition is called thematic development.