Simon Scheiwiller

'The world famous tale Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm was set to music in the 1890s by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The children's opera is performed regularly at many opera houses....

'The world famous tale Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm was set to music in the 1890s by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The children's opera is performed regularly at many opera houses....

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

'The world famous tale Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm was set to music in the 1890s by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The children's opera is performed regularly at many opera houses....

El compositor alemán Engelbert Humperdinck es conocido sobre todo por su ópera de cuento Hansel y Gretel, cuyo libreto fue escrito por su hermana Adelheid Wette. Esta colaboración también dio lugar a...

The 'Mass in b minor' (BWV 232) by Johann Sebastian Bach is a musical setting of the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass. The work was one of Bach's last compositions, not completed until 1749, the ye...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

In 1882 Richard Strauss wrote his 'Horn Concerto No. 1' in E-flat major, Op. 11. The horn concerto has become the most frequently performed horn concerto written in the 19th Century. At the age of 18...

In 1882 Richard Strauss wrote his 'Horn Concerto No. 1' in E-flat major, Op. 11. The horn concerto has become the most frequently performed horn concerto written in the 19th Century. At the age of 18...

German composer Richard Strauss composed 'Don Juan', Op. 20, in 1888. The work is based on 'Don Juans Ende', a play derived from an unfinished 1844 retelling of the tale by poet Nikolaus Lenau after t...

German composer Richard Strauss composed 'Don Juan', Op. 20, in 1888. The work is based on 'Don Juans Ende', a play derived from an unfinished 1844 retelling of the tale by poet Nikolaus Lenau after t...

Capriccio es la última ópera del compositor alemán Richard Strauss. Se estrenó en el Nationaltheater München el 28 de octubre de 1942. La ópera constaba originalmente de un solo acto. La escena final...

Capriccio es la última ópera del compositor alemán Richard Strauss. Se estrenó en el Nationaltheater München el 28 de octubre de 1942. La ópera constaba originalmente de un solo acto. La escena final...

The somewhat wayward French composer Erik Satie was often criticized that his compositions would have no form. So he collected some of his pieces into a kind of 'best of' and put them in the shape of...

Rachmaninov compuso el poema sinfónico "La isla de los muertos" (Die Toteninsel) op. 29 en 1908 en Dresde, inspirándose en una impresión en blanco y negro del cuadro homónimo de Arnold Böcklin que hab...

Rachmaninov compuso el poema sinfónico "La isla de los muertos" (Die Toteninsel) op. 29 en 1908 en Dresde, inspirándose en una impresión en blanco y negro del cuadro homónimo de Arnold Böcklin que hab...

'Tarantelle for Flute and Clarinet' was Camille Saint-Saëns the first concertante piece. He wrote it in 1857 for the first flute and first clarinet of the imperial academy, and it was they who premier...

'Tarantelle for Flute and Clarinet' was Camille Saint-Saëns the first concertante piece. He wrote it in 1857 for the first flute and first clarinet of the imperial academy, and it was they who premier...

Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and someti...

Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and someti...

Fidelio, la única ópera de Beethoven, encarna sus ideales de heroísmo y libertad frente a la opresión política. La ópera se estrenó en Viena en 1805, con el título de "Leonora" y la obertura que ahora...

Fidelio, la única ópera de Beethoven, encarna sus ideales de heroísmo y libertad frente a la opresión política. La ópera se estrenó en Viena en 1805, con el título de "Leonora" y la obertura que ahora...