Edwin F. Kalmus

An Oboe solo, composed by Benedetto Marcello.

El violinista, compositor y profesor de música húngaro Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) escribió un total de catorce SCENES DE LA CZARDA (también SCÈNES DE LA CSÁRDA) a lo largo de un periodo de cuarenta años,...

At the precocious age of fourteen, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scribbled out his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major. He wrote a second, this time longer, double piano concerto the foll...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) drew material for his NORWEGISCHE TÄNZE, Op. 35 (4 NORWEGIAN DANCES), originally scored for piano and four hands, from an 1853 collection of Norwegian folk tunes compiled by L...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote his final piano concerto, Concerto No. 5, Op. 103, in 1896, which debuted that year with the composer himself performing the solo part. It derives its subtitle, "...

LA BOHÈME (The Bohemian), one of the most beloved and commercially-successful operas, is based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger. With a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) escribió el vals La plus que lente para piano solo en 1910, una obra que puede o no haberse inspirado en una pequeña escultura de su chimenea. El título sugiere irónicamente...

MIROIRS ("Espejos"), una suite de cinco movimientos escrita originalmente por Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) para piano solo, fue escrita entre 1904 y 1905, y cada movimiento estaba dedicado a un compañero...

El director de orquesta y compositor español Gerónimo Giménez (1854-1923) se dedicó a la composición de zarzuelas, el popular género español de obras lírico-dramáticas en un acto que gozó de gran popu...

Andalucia Suite consists of six individual compositions. Included are the immortal Malaguena and the equally beautiful Andalucia, known as the The Breeze and I. Both Malaguena and Andalucia are comple...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world’s most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

Leroy Anderson's "Jazz Pizzicato" and "Jazz Legato" stand as quintessential proof of his legendary status as a composer of light music. With a nostalgic nod toward the traditional American dance form...

Este es el hermoso movimiento lento de Cavalleria Rusticana de Mascagni. Esta versión abreviada añade dos orquestaciones alternativas a la original y es adecuada para las mejores orquestas de todo el...

EUGENE ONEGIN, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin, is Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does not...