Partituras para orquesta

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Alexander Borodin's (1833-1887) Symphony No. 3 in A minor was written between 1886 and 1887. However, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, with only a sketch of the first movement and a co...

Probablemente compuesto en los primeros meses de 1877, el VALSE SCHERZO, OP. 34, ocupa un lugar importante en la obra de Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), ya que le preparó para empezar a trabaja...

George Bizet (1838-1875) tuvo la oportunidad de escribir su ópera LES PECHEURS DE PERLES (LOS PESCADORES DE PERLAS) por encargo, ya que había ganado el premio de composición del Prix de Rome. Con libr...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

En octubre de 1880, mientras terminaba su sexta sinfonía, Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) escribió a su editor Fritz Simrock que quería completar un conjunto de dúos para piano en el mes siguiente. El 30 d...

Symphony No. 16 in C Major, K. 128 was composed when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was 16 years old. It was the first of three written in May 1772 while he stayed in Salzburg. The first movement...

Escrita entre 1879 y 1881, la Sinfonía nº 6 de Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) fue considerada por el compositor como su "sinfonía más audaz", aunque muchos críticos de la época no estarían de acuerdo. Es...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) terminó su primera obra publicada para orquesta, RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE, entre 1907 y 1908, dedicando la obra al violinista belga Charles de Bériot. La Orchestre des Concerts Col...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...

LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (LOS CUENTOS DE HOFFMANN) fue escrita entre 1876 y 1880 y es la última obra compuesta por Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), que murió cuatro meses antes del estreno, temor que Offen...

The creation of the opera Il Trovatore by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was complicated by a variety of circumstances. The original play by Garcia Gutierrez needed simplifying, and the traditional notion...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Escrita originalmente en 1899 por Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) para piano solo y orquestada posteriormente por el compositor, PAVANE POUR UNE INFANTE DÉFUNTE (PAVANE PARA UNA PRINCESA MUERTA) sigue siend...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) wrote his SYMPHONY No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1, at the beginning of his role as music director for Count Karl Joseph Franz Morzin. Composed in 1757, it opens with a slow...

Probablemente escrita por Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) en 1763, la Sinfonía nº 16 en si bemol (Hob. I:16) fue una de las primeras sinfonías escritas cuando Haydn trabajaba para la familia Esterházy. En tr...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) escribió la ópera en tres actos MAZEPPA entre 1881 y 1883. Con un libreto de Victor Burenin, basado en el poema Poltava de Pushkin, la ópera toma las figuras hist...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) escribió la breve pieza orquestal titulada Sevillaña (Scène Espagnole), Op. 7 en 1884, cuando el compositor tenía veintiséis años. 1884 fue una época de dificultades personale...

AIDA, with music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, is a staple of the operatic repertoire. The story, set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, tells of tragic love challenge...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote Lyric Pieces as a collection of 66 short works for piano. Published in ten volumes, Book VIII, Op. 65, contains six pieces, which includes "Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen" (...

Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) wrote L'amico Fritz in 1891 only one year after his masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana began the Versimo movement. A charming light opera in three acts, L'am...

NABUCCO, a retelling of the biblical story of Jewish exile under the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) first major operatic success, and was written reluctantly, followi...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...