A former convict-turned-restaurateur, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s humble origins gave way to an astonishing, if unlikely, ascent.

For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

Katharina Wagner says she has learnt to live with the positives and the negatives of her famous forebear. A renowned artistic ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

From Stockhausen to Wagner: important composers from past centuries claim ... and lend these compositions an autobiographical integrity. In other words, if a composer can prove that his work – in the ...