Obras instrumentales clásicas para orquesta

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...

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...

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...

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...

Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti), composed in the mid-1870s, is widely considered the finest song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The composer selected four poems penned by h...

Originalmente escrita en 1908 como una "Pequeña Suite" para piano, CHILDREN'S CORNER estaba dedicada a la hija de Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Claude-Emma: "A mi querida pequeña Chouchou con las tierna...

SIGURD JORSALFAR, OP. 22, fue compuesta por Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) para una obra de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson en honor del rey Sigurd I. Estrenada en Christiania el 10 de abril de 1872, la música incide...

SIGURD JORSALFAR, OP. 22, fue compuesta por Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) para una obra de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson en honor del rey Sigurd I. Estrenada en Christiania el 10 de abril de 1872, la música incide...