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Pablo Luna Carné (1879-1942) was a Spanish composer mainly known for his zarzuela's. In 1918, he released one of his greatest works, 'El niño judío' ('The Jewish Boy'). 'De España vengo' is the best-k...

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28 (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), is a tone poem written in 1894 and 1895 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peas...

Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28 (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), is a tone poem written in 1894 and 1895 by Richard Strauss. It chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peas...

Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. His comic Opera The Enchantress (1911) was considered at the time when it was first produced one o...

Cuando, en 1889, el compositor militar alemán Carl Teike llevó al regimiento su marcha recién compuesta, el Kapellmeister se limitó a decirle: "Ya tenemos suficientes marchas musicales, ¡pon ésta en l...

'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...

En 1876, Tschaikowsky compuso su ballet "El lago de los cisnes" Op. 20. A pesar de su fracaso inicial, hoy en día es el ballet más popular de todos los tiempos. A pesar de su fracaso inicial, en la ac...

In 1868 Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe 'La Périchole' was premiered in Paris. The title character of this three act opera is based on Micaela Villegas, a beloved 18th century Peruvian entertainer an...

The 'Verbrüderungsmarsch Opus 287' is one of Johann Strauss' numerous marches. The march is rather unknown but nevertheless a very grateful piece. Dutch arranger Jos van de Braak transcribed the Verbr...

Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is...

The 'Andante e Rondo Ungarese', was written in response to the success of Carl Maria von Weber's 'Bassoon Concerto' and was requested by the bassoonist in the Munich Orchestra, Georg Friedrich Brandt....

Non ti scordar di me es una de las últimas canciones de De Curtis, escrita en 1935 para una película del mismo título, con el tenor Beniamino Gigli, que contribuyó a hacer famosas muchas canciones ita...

The 'Vier letzte Lieder' (Four Last Songs), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84. The songs are '...

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 talen...

As many French composers in those days, Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) had a passion for ancestral lands and many of his compositions reflect this rural heritage. One of these is the 'Fantaisie sur des th...

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...

The 'Vier letzte Lieder' (Four Last Songs), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are the final completed works of Richard Strauss. They were composed in 1948 when the composer was 84. The songs are '...

Der Rosenkavalier (El caballero de la rosa o El portador de la rosa), Op. 59, es una ópera cómica en tres actos de Richard Strauss con libreto original alemán de Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Es una adaptaci...

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775 - 1834) fue un popular compositor francés con grandes éxitos en la "Grand Opera" y la "Opéra Comiques". Su popularidad le valió el apodo de "el Mozart francés". De sus...

Sobre el oratorio "Elías" de Mendelssohn, The Times dijo: "Nunca hubo un triunfo más completo, nunca hubo un reconocimiento más completo y rápido de una gran obra de arte". El libreto de Elías es una...

Zueignung es una canción compuesta por Richard Strauss en 1885 con un poema del poeta austriaco Hermann von Gilm. Se incluyó en la primera colección de canciones que Strauss publicó, la Op. 10, en 188...

El "Cascanueces" de Tschaikowsky es un ballet en dos actos con un libreto adaptado del cuento de E. T. A. Hoffmann "El Cascanueces y el Rey de los Ratones". Se ha convertido en una de sus composicione...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d´Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

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...

Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992) fue un compositor de tango, bandoneonista y arreglista argentino. Su obra revolucionó el tango tradicional convirtiéndolo en un nuevo estilo denominado "nuevo tango", que...