We are extremely excited to launch the Informusic app for android devices today! The app will be specially priced at $0.99 for a limited time. Download here!

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Popular music history app now available for Android as well as for iOS
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NEW YORK, NY— Informusic (http://www.informusic.org/) is proud to announce that its popular and critically acclaimed music history app is now available for Android devices! Originally launched in the Fall of 2016 for iOS, the app is now available for a wide array of mobile devices on both Android and iOS.
“We’re really delighted to be able to offer the Informusic music history app for our users on the Android platform,” comments Informusic founder Drew Schweppe. “After overwhelming demand, our development team worked incredibly hard to create the Android version in just six months, and the result is that Informusic can now be truly enjoyed for study or entertainment on virtually any Android or iOS mobile device.”
Informusic is the essential app for classical music fans, musicians, students and teachers alike. It spotlights centuries of essential music history facts, figures and samples within a streamlined and useful mobile app that enables students and teachers to take that information with them anywhere they go. Informusic was created by Drew Schweppe, and carefully refined over a five- year period alongside an expert team of leading musicologists, performers, professors, and historians. The app provides an expansive amount of useful, fascinating and quickly accessible information on Western Art Music’s greatest composers and compositions, from the Medieval era, through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras – and with more expansions constantly in the works. Informusic’s most useful features include composer biographies, quick facts, and lists of complete works, as well as program notes, sheet music, audio samples, and suggested further scholarship.
Informusic also goes beyond simple facts, however, as it also features interactive timelines that





allow students to make connections between the music they learn in Band, Orchestra, Chorus & Music Appreciation or Theory and other art, historical, political, or cultural milestones (bridging the classical music world with whatever they may be studying in Social Studies, Art, English, Science, and more). Users can also search Informusic with ease, by year, event type, or specific keywords.
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The Android version of Informusic is specially priced at an introductory $.99 (a $2 discount off normal pricing at $2.99) through June 25, 2017, and is available now in the Google Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.informusic.
Purchase Info and Technical Requirements:
Informusic is now accessible for almost any current mobile device, as it’s compatible with Android devices, as well as with iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (requiring iOS 8.0 or later). Informusic is currently priced at $2.99 for iOS at the Apple iTunes Store, at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/informusic/id1015896668?mt=8, and at a special introductory price of $.99 at Google Play (for a limited time), at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.informusic. About Informusic:

Informusic is the essential classical music history app for Android and iOS that was created and founded by Drew Schweppe. Informusic provides a wealth of music history information that was specially created by experts in musicology, history, and performance. Its advisory board of PhD musicologists chaired by Dr. Mark A. Radice (Professor, Music Theory, History, and Composition at Ithaca College) ensures the app’s quality and accuracy as an invaluable learning tool for all. Learn more about Informusic at http://www.informusic.org/.

For more information on Informusic, or to review the app, please contact publicist Angela Mitchell at (904) 982-8043 or news@paranoidpr.com.

To reach Informusic directly, or to inquire about bulk purchases for your class, school, group, or organization, please e-mail hello@informusic.org.
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We are happy to announce the addition of Antonín Dvořák & Leoš Janáček to the Informusic app! These two composers helped bring Czech and Slavic musics to international acclaim.

Did you know that Dvořák and Janáček were friends? They spent significant time together on many occasions—including a portion of Janáček's honeymoon... The Informusic app makes it easy to see when and where they were together as well as what they discussed. To see these interactions, learn more about each composer, and to study and listen to their music, download the app here!

We're happy to add Buxtehude to our ever-expanding roster of composers! Not familiar with him? Here's your Buxtehude cheatsheet.

In: c. 1637/39—Helsingborg, Skåne, Denmark (present-day Sweden) or Oldesloe, Holstein, Denmark (present-day Germany)
Out: 9 May 1707—Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein (present-day Germany)

Composed: oratorios, vocal concerti, arias, chorales, sacred cantatas, keyboard works (organ &  harpsichord), chamber music

Buxtehude was a central composer of Germany's Baroque Era. He is best known for his organ works but made significant contributions to many genres during his lifetime. His work in Lübeck, most notably, the Abendmusik concert series, attracted musicians from across the German states: Handel, Mattheson, and even J.S. Bach attended Buxtehude's concerts.

In addition to Buxtehude's musical contributions, his career path as city music director influenced the careers of subsequent Baroque composers such as Handel, Telemann, and J.S. Bach.

The Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161 is one of Buxtehude's most important and well known works. Enjoy the inventive performance by Informusic featured artist Dr. Leon W. Couch III below. For more information about Buxtehude, and the importance of this Passacaglia, check out his profile on the app!

Do check out Dr. Couch's work and performances here & here.

Felix Mendelssohn was born on this day in 1809. Mendelssohn was a composer of the German 'Romantic generation.' His contributions to music are great and varied: He pioneered the concert overture genre as a freestanding orchestral piece, composed an abundance of chamber music, keyboard music, oratorios, concerti, as well as symphonies, and also revived an interest in the music of J.S. Bach. Happy Birthday, Mendelssohn!

For more information about Felix Mendelssohn, check out his profile in the app.

New Orleans based music school, Spreading the Music is the latest institution to adopt Informusic. The students at Spreading the Music will be using the Informusic app in their private lessons and music theory and compositions classes.

We can't wait to check out Spreading the Music in person while we're on tour in New Orleans this year! More details to come.

Their Mission:
Spreading the Music provides extensive individualized lesson planning catered to each student, putting the student at the heart of their musical exploration. Each student is surrounded by passionate, creative, attentive, and talented teachers who deeply understand the value of keeping music alive in all capacities. It is our mission to Spread the Music and broaden not only our students understanding of music, but to prepare them to be contributing members of the larger community.

For more information about Spreading the Music, check out their website and services here.

We're very happy to work together to make an impact on music lovers of all ages.

If you're interested in joining the great institutions that use Informusic in their classrooms and lessons, you can find information about our educational discount program here.

On this day in 1797, Franz Peter Schubert was born in the Himmelpfortgrund district of Vienna. Although he is famous for his masterful contributions to several genres during his short life, he is best remembered for composing over 600 lieder. Happy birthday, Schubert! Now go enjoy a Schubertiad near you.

Check out Schubert's profile on the app.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart was born on this day in 1756. Mozart is probably the most recognized name in classical music so we won't take up too much of your time talking about his gambling, prolific musical output, or dismissal from the Salzburg court but instead, here are two things you might not know about Mozart.

Mozart met J.C. Bach in London in 1764 and was greatly influenced by him.

In Mozart's final years, his debts grew and his success waned. The Austro-Turkish War made it difficult for musicians in Vienna to receive aristocratic sponsorship. For these reasons Mozart was forced to search for work in Germany and ultimately moved his family from the city of Vienna to an outside suburb.

Now go and enjoy your Mozart celebrations. Happy Birthday Wolfgang!

For more information about Mozart's life and music and how political events and interactions with fellow musicians shaped his works, check out his full profile in the app.

It's not an tone-row! It's what educators pay for the Informusic app through 15 February 2017. To celebrate the beginning of our 2017 #informusicontour we're offering a 50% discount to educational institutions when they provide Informusic to their students in bulk. That's less than 50 cents for centuries of music history. For more details get in touch at hello@informusic.org and be sure to check out some of the great institutions that use Informusic with their students.

We hope to see you as we travel across the U.S. details to come!

Did you know that you can gift the Informusic app this holiday season? Give the all-in-one music history resource to your friends and collegues for just $0.99!

We're proud to announce our newest partner, Backstage Podcast! If you're looking for clever, entertaining tales of music history, this is the podcast for you. Backstage Podcast does a fantastic job of making music history accessible to everyone. In addition to their podcast, the Backstage Guys, as they're called also offer a wealth of other media to go along with their topical broadcasts. They produce weekly comics, beautiful and thought provoking illustrations, historically rich blogs, guest articles on some of classical music's most frequented online platforms, and original music to accompany their podcast.

Backstage podcast is not to be missed and with their free VIP membership, all of their content is delivered to your inbox. You can sign up here.

We'd highly recommend their podcast about Antonín Dvořák, "Czech, Please." We especially like this episode because it puts Dvořák's influence in America into perspective while also contextualizing the rise of African American music as well. You can listen to this episode on itunes, GooglePlay, and Stitcher. You can also play it right here.

Happy Listening!