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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...

In 1909, Gabriel Fauré, Director of the Paris Conservatoire, named Claude Debussy to its Board of Directors. In July, Debussy sat on the jury for the conservatory's annual woodwind 'concours' (exit ex...

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...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. The "Melodram" is sung by Frank, governor of the prison, at the very...

In a life spanning almost ninety-five years, Stolz wrote in excess of 2000 songs, dances and marches, as well as the music for more than 50 stage works, 60 films and 19 ice revues. The song 'Du sollst...

Johann Strauss" Operetta "Die Fledermaus" belongs to his finest works and is the most successful operetta ever. Even nowadays "Die Fledermaus" is performed - especially around New Year's Day - all aro...

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...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin. Although the score gained high acclaim, the press criticized the original libretto as si...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...

Gioacchino Rossini is primarily known for his opera's, but also composed for other forces like this 'Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra'. It is generally believed that Ross...

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...

Die Moldau (Vltava) es el segundo movimiento del ciclo de poemas sinfónicos "Ma Vlast", del compositor checo Bedrich Smetana. En esta pieza, Smetana utiliza la pintura tonal para evocar los sonidos de...

The Preludes are short piano pieces by George Gershwin writtenin 1926. Each prelude is a well-known example of early-20th-century American classical music strongly influenced by jazz. Gershwin origina...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) fue un compositor estadounidense. Su estilo se considera "americano", pero quedó eclipsado hacia el final de su vida, cuando la música de Gershwin y Copland se h...

'Russian Easter Festival Overture' (La grande Pâque russe), is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. It is based on themes from the 'obikhod', which is a...

Victor August Herbert (1859-1924) fue un compositor, violonchelista y director de orquesta estadounidense nacido en Irlanda y criado en Alemania. Herbert fue un compositor prolífico, con una obra enor...