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The fact that the Sibelius Symphony, which is now performed most often, provoked controversial aesthetic reactions after its first performances in Finland at the time seems almost inconceivable today.

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

For the premiere in London on May 14, 1832, he prepared a fundamental new version, and Mendelssohn continued to fine-tune details until the first printing of the score, which was published by Breitkop...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

En el volumen VII,4 de la Hindemith Complete Edition se encuentran las cantatas Mainzer Umzug. Volksvergnügen für drei Singstimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester (1962) sobre un texto de Carl Zuckmaye...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

The text for the work was derived from a variety of poems by Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822) as suggested by Mre. Wharton. The poems used are: Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Good-Night Hymn to Intellectua...

'The [Concerto] is neoromantic: soaring melodies, blatantly tonal, and quite purposefully allows the audience access to its artistic message and aesthetic. It is (heaven forfend in these days of acade...