Roger Niese

Chaminade's Concertino for Flute in D major, Op. 107 was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was later arranged for flute and piano. Scholarship indicates that the Concertino was commissioned...

Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe' ('The merry widow') in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his tal...

The 'ballata' Questo o quella is sung by Il Duca de Mantua in the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Rigoletto. Among a group of guests he sings of his love-life: this one or that one, to me it's the...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The aria Mein Herr Marquis, ein Mann wie Sie is sung in the second ac...

Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky composed his Marche Slave in five days in the fall of 1876, completing the score on October 7 (and beginning his Symphonic Fantasia Francesca da Rimini the same day).It's mayb...

George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The famous polka Donner und Blitz is till today often used as interval...

1. Adeste Fideles (himno latino), 2. First Nowell (villancico inglés), 3. Oh, how joyfully (himno siciliano), 4. Silent Night (villancico alemán), 5. Cold December's Winds were stilled (catalán)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Duo Brillant Guillaume Tell, by French composer Jules Demersseman, is based on themes after Rossini's famous opera. It is written for Flute and Oboe. In this arrangement the solo part of the Oboe can...

Johann Strauss" Operetta "Die Fledermaus" belongs to his finest works and is the most successful operetta ever. Even nowadays "Die Fledermaus" is performed - especially around New Year's Day - all aro...

Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. His comic Opera The Enchantress (1911) was considered at the time when it was first produced one o...

In 1866 Offenbach composed 'La vie parisienne', an opéra bouffe, or operetta with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contempor...

Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote more than 700 songs. By t...

El compositor mexicano Agustín Lara (1897- 1970) se dedicó principalmente a componer canciones utilizadas en películas y cabarets. Se dice que Lara nunca aprendió notación musical. En total escribió m...

Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote more than 700 songs. By t...

El compositor mexicano Agustín Lara (1897- 1970) se dedicó principalmente a componer canciones utilizadas en películas y cabarets. Se dice que Lara nunca aprendió notación musical. En total escribió m...

For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Choir and Symphonic Band Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is....

For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Choir and Symphonic Band Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is....

picc. trp, 2 trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritono, tuba, perc., arpa Los momentos culminantes de la obra de Saint-Saens son la Sinfonía para órgano (1866) y la ópera 'Samson et Dalila' (1877). Con...

Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...

Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. From 1893 til...