Representative Figures of 20th Century Taiwan

Artist's Monologue: Tyzen Hsiao: Taiwanese Music and Me

0.056mMarch 17, 2001

Although the rise of Western modern music originated after the Italian Renaissance, it was in Germany and Austria that it reached its zenith and became a major center of the global music scene. Even now, concert programs around the world still focus on composers from Germany and Austria, with Bach, Handel, and Haydn becoming the founders of the Western classical music tradition.