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How do you become a jazz musician?

About a genre between street music and a university subject.

Caetano Veloso: Brazil’s voice of the century

He is the greatest all-rounder of Latin American musicians – and above all undaunted in every artistic confrontation with the powers-that-be.

Female Voices

Twelve women composers worth knowing

Iannis Xenakis: Architect of Sound

Resounding walls and audible spaces: in the work of Iannis Xenakis, music and architecture merge.

György Ligeti: A Love of Games

The Hungarian composer pulled off a rare feat in his music.

The Harpsichord

Everything you need to know about this venerable instrument – and about a beautiful one from Hamburg

The Big Beethoven ABC

To mark the composer’s 250th birthday: Ludwig van Beethoven from A to Z.

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: Video-Portrait: Thomas Adès

Zeitgenössische klassische Musik, die Menschen erreicht – die gibt es! Ein Portrait über den britischen Komponisten Thomas Adès.

The Art of Alteration

Beethoven's 33 »Diabelli Variations« and the new reading by Hans Zender.

Handel’s Secret

Even in his own lifetime, Handel was feted like a pop star. What was the composer's secret?

Elbphilharmonie explains: The theorbo

How the oversized lute came to dominate Renaissance stages.

»Believe« and music

It is only belief that makes us human.

Incense in Exchange for Gunpowder

The Silk Road: a trade route that altered the world.

Elbphilharmonie Explains: the Cornett

The Quintessence of a Flute, a Trumpet and a Human Being: the Cornett.

Great Britain: A Country with Music

A country that produced the Beatles and the »Proms«, and where there's a choir in every second village, can't be in such a bad way.

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus

Champagne, masks and intrigue: the essentials of the cult operetta by waltz king Johann Strauss.