Obras instrumentales para orquesta de viento

The somewhat wayward French composer Erik Satie was often criticized that his compositions would have no form. So he collected some of his pieces into a kind of 'best of' and put them in the shape of...

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...

Mignon es una "opéra comique" en tres actos del compositor francés Ambroise Thomas. El libreto original francés es de Jules Barbier y Michel Carré, basado en la novela de Goethe "Wilhelm Meisters Lehr...

Children's Corner is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy published in 1908 and later orchestrated by Debussy's friend André Caplet. The sixth and last piece of the suite is Golliwogg...

In the Steppes of Central Asia is the common English title for a "musical tableau" (or symphonic poem) which Borodin composed in 1880. The work was originally intended to be presented as one of severa...

Although some of Revueltas's music might hint at somber, ancient Indian rites (Noche de los Mayas and Sensemaya) or paint austere landscapes (Planos and Itinerarios), Caminos (1937) is one of Revuelta...

Shostakovich work on the 'String Quartet No. 8' proceeded simultaneously with incidental music to the film 'Five Days - Five Nights' and in this quartet he for the first time resorts to quoting themes...

Sigurd Jorsalfar es una suite orquestal de Edvard Grieg que celebra al rey Sigurd I de Noruega y que fue compilada en 1872 a partir de la música incidental de una obra teatral de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson...

Der Zigeunerbaron es la segunda opereta más popular de Strauss, después de "Die Fledermaus". Su estreno en 1885 tuvo resonancias políticas: el argumento popularizó la Monarquía Dual (austro-húngara),...

In 1876, Edvard Grieg created incidental music for the premiere of Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt', at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the form of orchestr...

Edward German (1862 - 1936) was an English musician and composer best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music including 'Richard III', 'Henry VIII', 'Nell Gwynn' and 'Romeo and Juliet'...

Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) composed his ballet Nuits d'Egypte, based on Théophile Gautier's novella Une nuit de Cléopatre, in 1900. The ballet was programmed by Serge Diaghilev at his...

To celebrate the second anniversary of Tivoli in Copenhagen, Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye - known as ''The Strauss of the North' - composed the Champagne Galop in 1845. The piece is a good ex...

In 1811 Beethoven wrote an overture and incidental music to a play by August von Kotzebue called 'The Ruins of Athens', which premiered in Pest in 1812. The 'Turkish March' appears as item No. 4 of th...

Hans Christian Lumbye is best known for his light compositions, many of which evoke non-musical sources. The 'Champagne Galop' (BTM681), for example, begins with the 'pop' of a champagne cork, and the...

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...

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...

Dmitri Shostakóvich compuso su Sinfonía nº 5 en re menor, Op. 47, entre abril y julio de 1937. Fue estrenada el 21 de noviembre de 1937 en Leningrado por la Orquesta Filarmónica de Leningrado. El estr...

In 1868 Johann Strauss jr. composed the polka 'Freikugeln' (Free-Shooter), opus 326 which commemorated the '3rd German Federal Shooting Contest', which attracted no less than ten thousand entrants fro...

Johann Strauss composed the 'Kuss-Walzer' (Kiss Waltz) in 1881. This waltz was dedicated to his second wife, Angelika Dittrich and comprises melodies from Strauss' popular operetta 'Der lustige Krieg'...

Inspired by one of his students and his later wife, Ottorino Respighi composed in 1922 'Vetrate di Chiesa' (The Church Windows). This four movement Symphonic Suite is based on Gregorian melodies. It's...