Music links

The Classical Music pages

This site by Matt Boynick is very highly recommended.

A library of classical recordings

An enormous list of composers and suggested pieces for "getting to know them by".

Classicalmusic.org.uk

A new site providing links to a large set of mainly British classical music resources.

Opera Italiana

A site full of information about (and music samples of) Italian opera.

Jazz server

Looks very extensive.

Music & Vision

"An internet music magazine in daily parts". A useful magazine style site, with what looks to be frequently updated material. (Includes a nice review of my site!)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

A page about the works and life of this composer, conductor and and violinist. He was born in Guadeloupe in 1739. His mother was a slave. He spent most of his career in France.

Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre

Pages of the museum, which is a reconstruction of Liszt's last Budapest flat on the first floor of the old Academy of Music, where the composer lived between 1881 and 1886.

Michael Balfe

A 19th century Irish opera composer, whose most famous opera is The Bohemian Girl.

Composers of African Descent

Music in the Western Classical tradition by Africans, African Americans and African Europeans of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Contains biographical information and a discography.

A music tutorial page

Mainly links to a wide variety of music education resources.

Classic Cat

Directory of free classical music made available by the performers, sorted by composer and work. With biographical links for the composers. 800 performances listed and growing.

Austrian sites by Benedikt Mandl

About Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, and about the evolution of classical music in and around Vienna into more “romantic” styles, from Mozart to Mahler.