Bach wrote the entire piece to be playable on just the G string, the lowest string, of a violin – but it ... achievements in Western music. It marked the first time voices were used in a symphony, ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos ... its verses in Russian giant Rachmaninov’s most famous piano concerto – pop-classical ...

A violin made in 1714 by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari sold for $11.3 million at an auction in New York on Friday, ...

"This extraordinary violin represents the pinnacle of craftsmanship and classical music history ... Stradivarius gets its name from its two most famous owners: Joseph Joachim of Hungary, who ...