Douglas McLain: Partituras medio

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) fue un compositor estadounidense. Su estilo se considera "americano", pero quedó eclipsado hacia el final de su vida, cuando la música de Gershwin y Copland se h...

'La danza' es una canción patter de Gioacchino Rossini, en tiempo de 'Tarantella napoletana'. Es la octava canción de la colección "Les soirées musicales", que compuso entre 1830 y 1835. "La danza" se...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) finished his masterpiece Otello in October 1885. The libretto by Arrigo Boito was based on Shakespeare's tragedy. The Bonfire Chorus is sung in the very first act: the peopl...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular 'To a Wild Rose'), New Eng...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano (including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular "To a Wild Rose"), New En...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano (including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular 'To a Wild Rose'), New En...

Hummel wrote his "Concerto a Trombe Principale" (Trumpet Concerto in E Major) for Viennese trumpet virtuoso and inventor of the keyed trumpet, Anton Weidinger (as had Joseph Haydn). It was written in...

Roméo et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto based on "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The opera is notable for the series of four duets f...

Pelléas et Mélisande, Opus 80, es una suite derivada de la música incidental del compositor francés Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) para la obra homónima de Maurice Maeterlinck. La "Sicilienne" (Allegro mol...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly "Dichter...

Carmen es probablemente la ópera más famosa de todo el repertorio operístico, aunque su estreno en 1875 fue una gran decepción. El coro "Avec la garde montante" se canta en el primer acto: Un grupo de...

The 'Banditen-Galop (Bandit's Gallop) is a gallop which was arranged from melodies in Strauss' operetta 'Prinz Methusalem'. The title of the composition is derived from the appearance in the stage wor...

The 'Banditen-Galop (Bandit's Gallop) is a gallop which was arranged from melodies in Strauss' operetta 'Prinz Methusalem'. The title of the composition is derived from the appearance in the stage wor...

Victor August Herbert (1859-1924) fue un compositor, violonchelista y director de orquesta estadounidense nacido en Irlanda y criado en Alemania. Herbert fue un compositor prolífico, con una obra enor...

In 1851 Johann Strauss jr. composed the 'Albion-Polka', dedicated to Count Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. The count and his wife, Priscilla, both loved music...

A Shropshire Lad es una colección de 63 poemas del poeta inglés Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936). Los poemas hablan de la fugacidad del amor y de la juventud, del deber hacia la patria, de enfrentars...

Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen composed incidental music for the play 'Vasantasena' in 1896 while he worked as a theater conductor in Bergen. Later he selected four numbers for performance as a co...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was the greatest representative of the national style in Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Prague conservatory in 1859 and worked several years as a viola player and mus...

La opereta "Babes in Toyland" fue compuesta por Victor Herbert (1859-1924) en 1903. En esta opereta con libreto de Glen MacDonough, varios personajes de las rimas infantiles de Mamá Ganso se entreteje...

Léon Jessel was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today Jessel is best known internationally as the composer of 'The Parade of the Tin Soldiers' (Die Parade der Zinnsold...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano, several important instrumental suites and a large number of songs that were...

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...