Moscheles taught his adopted country how to write enchanting music for decades to come.

A Scottish widow’s lullaby for her fatherless child inspired his music, but Brahms’s message struck closer to home.

Edward Elgar suffered from depression, and ‘Nimrod’ is his token of thanks to the true friend who supported him through it.

A gifted composer of classical music in the romantic tradition, admired by Stanford, Elgar, and Sullivan.

Lost for seventeen centuries, caught up in a war, and used as a pedestal for a plant pot, this is the world’s oldest surviving song.

Handel’s German boss fired the composer for spending all his time in London. When they met again, it was... rather awkward.