As every conscientious Soviet composer knows (or at least has been clearly told), music stood still 50 years ago. Even the best of them—Dmitry Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian and the late ...

After recording arrangements of composer Bela Bartok’s music in 2011, he went in another direction and found four contemporary classical composers to write new music for his group.

All the changes to music history at the start of the 20th century, Weill wrote, “were initiated or at least announced by him.” You could call Busoni the first truly modern composer.