Partituras de Música clásica (Romanticismo) dificil

Brahms's First String Sextet became very popular after its publication in 1861, yet his publisher Simrock still hesitated when the composer offered him a second such work in 1865, 'in the same cheerfu...

Al igual que su obra compañera op. 88 de 1882, el segundo quinteto para cuerda de Brahms debía terminarse en el ambiente relajado de un verano en Bad Ischl, pero ocho años más tarde. El primer ensayo...

Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his 'Wagner transcriptions' had 'only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meagre pos...

Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...

Rachmaninov's well-known piano cycle was composed in 1931, at a time when his great works for solo piano and the piano concertos had already brought him great fame. However, this is by no means an 'ol...

Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas were among the 20-year-old composer's first publications. They were written in 1852-53, with the slow movement of this C major Sonata, which uses the song 'Verstohlen g...

Johannes Brahms's Piano Sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53, although the Sonata in f-sharp minor was apparently t...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies stand in the tradition of his transcriptions of operatic or song melodies, yet employ folk dances and songs as their source material. Completed in 1864, Rhapsodie espagnole is...

Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In the course of his editing, Liszt intensified...

El compositor italiano Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), hijo de un panadero, compuso su primera ópera a los trece años. En 1882, con diecinueve años, ingresó en el Conservatorio de Milán, donde estudió d...

Para muchos oyentes, el compositor francés Jules Massenet (1842-1912) es conocido sobre todo por la exquisita «Méditation» de su ópera Thaïs (1894; revisada en 1898). Aunque la ópera en sí solo se re...

The Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is considered one of the most versatile music makers of his time. He wrote symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, tone...

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

La gran "Misa en fa menor" de Bruckner es una de las obras más importantes del compositor y de la música coral del siglo XIX en general. De manera única, el compositor logra aquí penetrar musicalmente...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F" minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Unter den zahlreichen Kompositionen Verdis bleibt das Requiem als kirchenmusikalisches Werk singulär. Es ist als musikalisches Memorial für den von Verdi tief verehrten italienischen Nationaldichter A...

La Fantasía de concierto sobre motivos de la ópera "Rigoletto" de Verdi, de Luigi Bassi, arreglada para clarinete y orquesta de viento por John Glenesk Mortimer, es una obra brillante y virtuosa que s...

La Fantasía de concierto sobre motivos de la ópera "Rigoletto" de Verdi, de Luigi Bassi, arreglada para clarinete y orquesta de viento por John Glenesk Mortimer, es una obra brillante y virtuosa que s...

> Based on the Urtext of the New Schubert Edition > First scholarly-critical performing edition of the Fantasy in C minor (D 2 E) > Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng) > Includes an informative fo...

Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

> Urtext edition with new readings > Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng) > With historically informed fingering and practical page-turns > Informative Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Comm...

Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a 'Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that 'the beloved and talent...

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