Giovanni Simone Mayr had a strong influence on the history of Italian opera. He paved the way for Italian composers including Bellini, Rossini, Verdi, and his most famous student, Donizetti. Find out more about his life and his music in this infographic.

The Concertgebouw, founded in 1888, selected Huang Ruo to be the first composer-in-residence in its history.

Adam Schoenberg was named among the Top 10 most performed living classical composers in the US in a national survey of 89 orchestras published by the Baltimore Symphony.

On December 8 the Opéra de Reims will present, for the first time with the reduced orchestration, Matteo Franceschini’s Zazie dans le métro, a music theatre piece on a libretto by Michel Beretti dedicated to young audiences.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite work from our catalogs. This time Sergej Newski introduces Vinko Globokar’s L’Armonia Drammatica.

In this video documentary, Intendant Dietmar Schwarz, conductor Enrique Mazzola, soprano Nino Machaidze, and Chief Dramaturge Jörg Königsdorf introduce both the critical edition series and the individual work Vasco da Gama.

At the 2016 Lucerne Festival, Olga Neuwirth will present a brand-new piece for percussion and orchestra.

For centuries, classical music was mostly composed and performed by men. Luckily this has changed in the past decades. In our series, we are introducing the female composers of our publishing group. This time: Annette Schlünz.

The Lengnick repertoire represents a great stylistic variety of 20th century British music, including key works by William Alwyn, Malcolm Arnold and Alun Hoddinott as well as some undiscovered rarities and hidden gems.

Between 1897 and 1899, Richard Strauss had five works published by Forberg-Verlag: the orchestral lieder Befreit, Notturno, Nächtlicher Gang and Der Arbeitsmann as well as the melodrama Enoch Arden.