Baton Music

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...

German composer Peter Cornelius composed his song cycle "Weihnachtslieder" ("Christmas Songs"), Opus 8, in 1856. Cornelius, who also was a gifted writer and had first pursued a career as an actor, wro...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera '...

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing es un villancico que apareció por primera vez en 1739 en la colección "Hymns and Sacred Poems", escrita por Charles Wesley, pero no es la versión que se conoce hoy en día....

Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, fue escrita por Louis Moreau Gottschalk en 1857 durante una gira por Puerto Rico y publicada en Maguncia hacia 1860 con el subtítulo de "Marche de Gibaros". Se basa en...

Nochebuena es una ópera en cuatro actos con música y libreto de Rimsky-Korsakov, compuesta entre 1894 y 1895. En el tercer acto de la ópera, un coro canta las alabanzas de la Zarina en una magnífica p...

Nochebuena es una ópera en cuatro actos con música y libreto de Rimsky-Korsakov, compuesta entre 1894 y 1895. En el tercer acto de la ópera, un coro canta las alabanzas de la Zarina en una magnífica p...

Pietro Alessandro Yon (1886-1943) fue un organista y compositor italiano que hizo carrera en Estados Unidos. Como compositor, Yon es famoso por su Humoresque "L'organo primitivo" und "Gesù bambino". '...

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...

As a composer Franz 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 gif hi...

As a composer Franz 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 gif hi...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The duet 'Trinke Liebchen, trinke schnell' is sung by Alfredo and Ros...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The duet 'Trinke Liebchen, trinke schnell' is sung by Alfredo and Ros...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

The operetta 'Wiener Blut' is set against the Vienna of the early nineteenth century, during the Congress of Vienna. At that time, the Biedermeier city was poised to become a pulsing metropolis, a cul...

Der Zigeunerbaron es la segunda opereta más popular de Strauss, después de "Die Fledermaus". Su estreno en 1885 tuvo resonancias políticas; el argumento popularizó la Monarquía Dual (austro-húngara) q...

Der Zigeunerbaron es la segunda opereta más popular de Strauss, después de "Die Fledermaus". Su estreno en 1885 tuvo resonancias políticas; el argumento popularizó la Monarquía Dual (austro-húngara) q...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high...

Como compositor, Lehár empezó contribuyendo al género de la ópera, pero el gran triunfo de su primera opereta "Die lustige Witwe", (La viuda alegre), en 1905, le dejó claro que tenía que dedicar su ta...