Edwin F. Kalmus

En un principio, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) pretendía que Images pour orchestre fuera una continuación de la primera serie de Images para piano solo. Sin embargo, hacia 1905, decidió orquestar las com...

En un principio, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) pretendía que Images pour orchestre fuera una continuación de la primera serie de Images para piano solo. Sin embargo, hacia 1905, decidió orquestar las com...

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), abogado francés convertido en compositor autodidacta, escribió su LARGHETTO para trompa en 1875. La obra, que se asemeja a un aria de ópera para trompa, es muy lírica y...

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), abogado francés convertido en compositor autodidacta, escribió su LARGHETTO para trompa en 1875. La obra, que se asemeja a un aria de ópera para trompa, es muy lírica y...

La obra más larga de Ravel, con casi una hora de duración, el ballet completo en un acto Dafnis y Cloe, fue descrita por el compositor como una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonía coreográfica). Rave...

Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) has been described as the first Swedish modernist composer. Influenced by Sibelius in his early years, he later absorbed the work of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Hindemith...

Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) has been described as the first Swedish modernist composer. Influenced by Sibelius in his early years, he later absorbed the work of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Hindemith...

While his Symphony No. 9 is better known, Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 7 is argued by many to be his best symphonic work. Inspired in part by his friend Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No....

While his Symphony No. 9 is better known, Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 7 is argued by many to be his best symphonic work. Inspired in part by his friend Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No....

The first of a few works that Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) wrote for wind band, ORIENT AND OCCIDENT, subtitled "grand march," better resembles a tone poem. Inspired by the world travels he undertoo...

The first of a few works that Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) wrote for wind band, ORIENT AND OCCIDENT, subtitled "grand march," better resembles a tone poem. Inspired by the world travels he undertoo...

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (1866-1946) fue compositor y director de teatro. Considerado el "padre" de la opereta berlinesa, fue más conocido por su opereta Frau Luna, aunque su Berliner Luft (Aire de Berlí...

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (1866-1946) fue compositor y director de teatro. Considerado el "padre" de la opereta berlinesa, fue más conocido por su opereta Frau Luna, aunque su Berliner Luft (Aire de Berlí...

Carmen-Quadrille nach Motiven der gleichnamigen Oper von G. Bizet (Carmen quadrille based on motifs from the opera of the same name by G. Bizet), Op. 134, was written by Eduard "Edi" Strauss (1835-191...

DREI MILITARMARSCHEN (TRES MARCHAS MILITARES), Op. 51, D. 733, fueron escritas originalmente para piano a cuatro manos por Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) durante su estancia en la casa de verano del con...

Antonín Dvorák compuso dos series de "Danzas eslavas", cada una de ellas de ocho números y separadas por ocho años. La idea fue sugerida al compositor por el editor, N. Simrock, a raíz de la presentac...

The piano trio version of La muse et le poète, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...

The piano trio version of La muse et le poète, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...

Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) in 1934, this set of variations for piano solo and orchestra on Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 for solo violin is much like a concerto, though it consists...

El camino de Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) hasta completar su Sinfonía nº 1, Op. 1, fue menos directo de lo habitual. Aunque había esbozado ideas para la sinfonía como resultado de sus clases de...

Count d'Ogny commissioned Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) to write three symphonies for the Concert de la Loge Olympique, which was then recognized as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. He complet...

Count d'Ogny commissioned Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) to write three symphonies for the Concert de la Loge Olympique, which was then recognized as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. He complet...

Popularly known as the “New World Symphony,” Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 9 in E minor was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. A m...

Popularly known as the “New World Symphony,” Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 9 in E minor was composed in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. A m...

The Chandos Anthems, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...