Partituras medio para Orquesta de viento

Gioacchino Rossini composed the Variations in Do for Clarinette in 1810 during his last year of study at the Musical Lyceum of Bologna. It was, in all probability, written for a school concert given b...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The famous polka Donner und Blitz is till today often used as interval...

1. Adeste Fideles (himno latino), 2. First Nowell (villancico inglés), 3. Oh, how joyfully (himno siciliano), 4. Silent Night (villancico alemán), 5. Cold December's Winds were stilled (catalán)

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. Due to his dramatic qualities the piece was also fitful for...

Karl Millöcker (1842-1899) was one of Johann Strauss II's greatest rivals in his lifetime, but his music is almost unknown in England. Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three ac...

José Serrano's zarzuela La Canción del olvido was first performed in 1916 in Valencia and until now it belongs to one of the most succesful zarzueala's in history.La Canción del olvido has a Napoleoni...

Paganini was the first Lehár operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote more than 700 songs. By t...

El compositor mexicano Agustín Lara (1897- 1970) se dedicó principalmente a componer canciones utilizadas en películas y cabarets. Se dice que Lara nunca aprendió notación musical. En total escribió m...

Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote more than 700 songs. By t...

El compositor mexicano Agustín Lara (1897- 1970) se dedicó principalmente a componer canciones utilizadas en películas y cabarets. Se dice que Lara nunca aprendió notación musical. En total escribió m...

Puccini's Opera Manon Lescaut is based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. He used some musical elements in Manon Lescaut from earlier works h...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) finished his masterpiece Otello in October 1885. The libretto by Arrigo Boito was based on Shakespeare's tragedy. The Bonfire Chorus is sung in the very first act: the peopl...

The famous Meditation from Jules Massenet opera Thaïs is the entr"acte for violin and orchestra played between the scenes of the second act and nowadays often performed as a separate concert piece.

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular 'To a Wild Rose'), New Eng...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano (including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular "To a Wild Rose"), New En...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano (including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular 'To a Wild Rose'), New En...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the 'Coronation March' by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing es un villancico que apareció por primera vez en 1739 en la colección "Hymns and Sacred Poems", escrita por Charles Wesley, pero no es la versión que se conoce hoy en día....

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif hi...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif hi...

Johann Strauss wrote the 'Russische Marsch-Fantasie' (Russian March Fantasy) for a tour to Russia in 1872. Because the tour was cancelled, the successful first performance of the march was held in Vie...

Carmen es probablemente la ópera más famosa de todo el repertorio operístico, aunque su estreno en 1875 fue una gran decepción. El estribillo "¡Vivat! Vivat le Torero!" se canta en el segundo acto de...