Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The baroque period in music stretches from the invention of opera around 1600 to the death of J.S. Bach ...

Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...

Casual classical music listeners might think of it as a genre designed around string quartets and pianos. But the hardcore devotees among us know that the piano didn’t even exist when many of the best ...