https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/composers/RSS feed for ComposersenMon, 02 Mar 2026 21:42:36 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-devoted-to-the-romantic-movement-reopens-in-paris-after-extensive-renovations-180988251/The Musée de la Vie Romantique, where the Dutch-French painter Ary Scheffer once lived, opened its doors on Valentine's DayMon, 02 Mar 2026 21:42:36 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-devoted-to-the-romantic-movement-reopens-in-paris-after-extensive-renovations-180988251/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/happy-public-domain-day-to-all-who-celebrate-you-can-now-use-betty-boop-nancy-drew-and-the-maltese-falcon-for-free-180987927/On January 1, 2026, copyrights will expire for comics, books, movies, musical compositions and other creative works from 1930, as well as sound recordings from 1925Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:29:45 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/happy-public-domain-day-to-all-who-celebrate-you-can-now-use-betty-boop-nancy-drew-and-the-maltese-falcon-for-free-180987927/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/tragedy-struck-composer-irving-berlin-on-christmas-day-years-later-he-would-write-one-of-the-all-time-holiday-classics-180987920/“White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades laterTue, 23 Dec 2025 14:27:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/tragedy-struck-composer-irving-berlin-on-christmas-day-years-later-he-would-write-one-of-the-all-time-holiday-classics-180987920/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-bach-compositions-were-lost-to-history-they-were-just-performed-for-the-first-time-in-300-years-and-you-can-listen-to-them-180987727/After discovering the two pieces in the 1990s, researchers have finally concluded that they were created by the famous German composer. An organist performed them for audiences on November 17Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:05:55 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-bach-compositions-were-lost-to-history-they-were-just-performed-for-the-first-time-in-300-years-and-you-can-listen-to-them-180987727/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-an-experimental-composition-50-pianos-tuned-to-slightly-different-frequencies-play-together-180987442/Audience members are surrounded by a ring of dozens of pianos in "11,000 Strings"Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:45:59 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-an-experimental-composition-50-pianos-tuned-to-slightly-different-frequencies-play-together-180987442/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artificial-brain-aims-to-allow-composer-to-keep-making-music-three-years-after-his-death-180986476/Before dying in 2021, Alvin Lucier donated blood for "Revivification," an installation that generates sound in response to neural signalsWed, 23 Apr 2025 17:08:26 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artificial-brain-aims-to-allow-composer-to-keep-making-music-three-years-after-his-death-180986476/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-of-the-oldest-surviving-operas-by-a-black-american-composer-will-be-performed-for-the-first-time-138-years-after-it-was-written-180985943/Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere after languishing in obscurity for more than a centuryFri, 31 Jan 2025 14:24:30 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-of-the-oldest-surviving-operas-by-a-black-american-composer-will-be-performed-for-the-first-time-138-years-after-it-was-written-180985943/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/music-history-and-contemporary-art-destroyed-in-the-deadly-lost-angeles-wildfires-180985829/An archive of scores by composer Arnold Schoenberg and the collections of countless contemporary artists have been lost in the blazeTue, 14 Jan 2025 20:57:25 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/music-history-and-contemporary-art-destroyed-in-the-deadly-lost-angeles-wildfires-180985829/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-public-domain-day-popeye-rhapsody-in-blue-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-thousands-of-other-captivating-creations-are-finally-free-for-everyone-to-use-180985744/On January 1, 2025, copyrights will expire for books, films, comic strips, musical compositions and other creative works from 1929, as well as sound recordings from 1924Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-public-domain-day-popeye-rhapsody-in-blue-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-thousands-of-other-captivating-creations-are-finally-free-for-everyone-to-use-180985744/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-listen-to-a-lost-chopin-waltz-that-hasnt-been-heard-for-nearly-two-centuries-180985363/The one-minute composition, which dates to the 1830s, was found on a piece of paper about the size of an index card at a museum in New York CityThu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-listen-to-a-lost-chopin-waltz-that-hasnt-been-heard-for-nearly-two-centuries-180985363/