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Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewha...

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. The Cavatina 'Largo al factotum' is sung by Figaro, the barber of Sevilla, in the first act of the opera: he tells...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

In 1876 Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) composed his "Preludio in Mi minore" which became later known as the "Preludio a Orchestra". It"s Puccini"s first surviving work and through its original treatment...

In 1876 Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) composed his "Preludio in Mi minore" which became later known as the "Preludio a Orchestra". It"s Puccini"s first surviving work and through its original treatment...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it´s quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The 'Carmen Fantasy' , together wit...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it's quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The Carmen Fantasy, together with Z...

La obra más conocida de Kurt Weill (1900-1950) es "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("La ópera de los tres centavos") (1928), una adaptación de "La ópera del mendigo" de John Gay, escrita en colaboración con Ber...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792) was a German-Czech composer and a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Le Nozze di Figaro es una de las tres óperas que Mozart compuso sobre libretos de Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), famoso director de teatro y poeta vienés. La "Canzonetta sull'aria" es cantada en el ter...

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The 'Slavonic Dance No. 1' is a 'f...

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The 'Slavonic Dance No. 1' is a 'f...

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...

Der Bürger als Edelmann es el título alemán de una obra de Molière y una suite orquestal de Richard Strauss. La obra original francesa se titula "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" y trata de un rico comercian...

Urlicht pertenece a los "Wunderhornlieder" de Mahler y también se utiliza en su segunda sinfonía, titulada "Auferstehung". El texto de la canción trata sobre el gran dolor y la desesperación en que vi...

Urlicht pertenece a los "Wunderhornlieder" de Mahler y también se utiliza en su segunda sinfonía, titulada "Auferstehung". El texto de la canción trata sobre el gran dolor y la desesperación en que vi...

Guglielmo Ratcliff es una ópera trágica en cuatro actos del compositor italiano Pietro Mascagni. El libreto fue traducido de la obra alemana "Wilhelm Ratcliff" (1822) de Heinrich Heine. Mascagni escri...

Guglielmo Ratcliff es una ópera trágica en cuatro actos del compositor italiano Pietro Mascagni. El libreto fue traducido de la obra alemana "Wilhelm Ratcliff" (1822) de Heinrich Heine. Mascagni escri...

Las 'Danzas húngaras' (Ungarische Tänze), que evocan directamente la cálida sangre de la música gitana húngara, constan de 21 danzas, compuestas originalmente para piano a cuatro manos. Quizás menos c...