Edwin F. Kalmus

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1dPicc).2.2+BCl..1: 4Sax(opt.): 2.3.3.1: Perc(2)...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

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...