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....

French composer Émile Waldteufel has written more than 250 dances, which were mostly waltzes. Among his wellknown pieces are España or Estudiantina, and the then Prince of Wales and future King Edward...

The Paris horn player Louis François Dauprat was professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, thus having a great influence on the French school of horn playing. He wrote his compositions mostly for didac...

Charles Gounod escribió sus Seis mélodies en 1839, a la edad de 21 años, para la recién aparecida trompa de válvulas. Ahora están disponibles en una nueva edición completamente revisada.

The concerto was written for 'Corno pastoriccio' and may be played on a horn, an alphorn or on whatever natural instrument that may sound the notes d, g, b, d (concert pitch). The orchestral version w...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

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...

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...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...