Baton Music

The 'Vier letzte Lieder' (Four Last Songs), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84. The songs are '...

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 talen...

La opereta "Babes in Toyland" fue compuesta por Victor Herbert (1859-1924) en 1903. En esta opereta con libreto de Glen MacDonough, varios personajes de las rimas infantiles de Mamá Ganso se entreteje...

As many French composers in those days, Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) had a passion for ancestral lands and many of his compositions reflect this rural heritage. One of these is the 'Fantaisie sur des th...

Léon Jessel was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today Jessel is best known internationally as the composer of 'The Parade of the Tin Soldiers' (Die Parade der Zinnsold...

The 'Vier letzte Lieder' (Four Last Songs), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84. The songs are '...

Der Rosenkavalier (El caballero de la rosa o El portador de la rosa), Op. 59, es una ópera cómica en tres actos de Richard Strauss con libreto original alemán de Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Es una adaptaci...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775 - 1834) fue un popular compositor francés con grandes éxitos en la "Grand Opera" y la "Opéra Comiques". Su popularidad le valió el apodo de "el Mozart francés". De sus...

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 talen...

Sobre el oratorio "Elías" de Mendelssohn, The Times dijo: "Nunca hubo un triunfo más completo, nunca hubo un reconocimiento más completo y rápido de una gran obra de arte". El libreto de Elías es una...

Zueignung es una canción compuesta por Richard Strauss en 1885 con un poema del poeta austriaco Hermann von Gilm. Se incluyó en la primera colección de canciones que Strauss publicó, la Op. 10, en 188...

El "Cascanueces" de Tschaikowsky es un ballet en dos actos con un libreto adaptado del cuento de E. T. A. Hoffmann "El Cascanueces y el Rey de los Ratones". Se ha convertido en una de sus composicione...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d´Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano, several important instrumental suites and a large number of songs that were...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the 'Bohemian Sousa'. Today his marches...

Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992) fue un compositor de tango, bandoneonista y arreglista argentino. Su obra revolucionó el tango tradicional convirtiéndolo en un nuevo estilo denominado "nuevo tango", que...

Parsifal es una ópera en tres actos del compositor alemán Richard Wagner. Está basada en "Parzival" de Wolfram von Eschenbach, un poema épico del siglo XIII sobre el caballero artúrico Parzival (Perci...

'Morgen!' is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. It was one of his 'four Lieder Opus 27', a wedding present to his wife Pauline. 'Morgen!' remains...

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...

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. In 1902 he co...

En 1869, Josef Strauss pasó el verano junto a su hermano Johann en Pavlovsk, cerca de San Petersburgo. Cuando se recuperó de una enfermedad, escribió una polca especialmente rápida und tituló la obra...

Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes. 'Halka' is an opera to a l...

Día de boda en Troldhaugen es la sexta pieza para piano del octavo libro de las "Piezas líricas" de Edvard Grieg, con el número de opus 65. Originalmente se llamaba "Gratulanterne kommer" ("Llegan los...

Henri Pierné (1863 - 1937) was a French composer, conductor, and organist. Gabriel Pierné has been called the most complete French musician of the late Romantic/early twentieth century era. Pierné wro...

Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) is a Christmas carol composed by French composer Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the poem "Minuit, Chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a wine merc...