The Italian Trecento is an often overlooked period in Western Music history, marked as the transition between the artistic pinnacle of...

Thirty miles west of the bustling Spanish metropolis, Barcelona, nestled in the craggy serrations of the multi-peaked mountain range...

After having spent time on music from late medieval France, I think it fair I give attention to the other contemporary musical movements...

Today, Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 - 1377) is considered the most prominent composer and poet of the 14th century, bridging the musical...

"Early music" is a field of listening that many do not follow, even the most avid of classical music lovers. There are many opinions as...

Schroeder on Liturgical Music in the 20th Century The accessibility of Schroder’s choral music is probably in part due to Schroeder’s...

Biography: Mid-Life Hermann Schroeder’s first professional post of distinction was as teacher of theory at the Rheinische Musikschule in...

What follows in my third post are excerpted score examples of Schroeder’s style as demonstrated on the organ. This discussion is...

Biography: Early Caree Schroeder grew up in a Catholic household with musical parents. When he was eleven he began receiving piano and...

Over the past year, I have become appreciably interested in the music of a lesser known German composer, Hermann Schroeder (1904 - 1984)....