Partituras para orquesta

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB in October of 1773, when the young composer was only 17 years old. One of two symphonies Mozart wrote in G mi...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter' was completed on August 10th, 1788. The last and longest of his symphonies, it is uncertain if the work was ever perf...

As an inexhaustible proponent of Beethoven's life and work, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) produced a number of arrangements and transcriptions in homage to the great composer. His FANTASIE ÜBER MOTIVEN AUS...

La Valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (poema coreográfico para orquesta), de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), tiene una historia un tanto accidentada que ha dado lugar a numerosas interpretaciones d...

First written in 1868 by a young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), this orchestral suite was originally titled his SYMPHONY No. 2 by the composer, though it was always a programmatic telling of the...

Originally composed and premiered in 1915 from a commission by the Finnish government in honor of his 50th birthday, Jean Sibelius' (1865-1957) SYMPHONY NO. 5 in E-flat, Op. 82 saw two revisions, one...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

Escrita entre 1914 y 1917, Gustav Holst se inspiró inicialmente para componer LOS PLANETAS en una conversación que mantuvo sobre astrología durante unas vacaciones en España con unos amigos en 1913. I...

SUOR ANGELICA (HERMANA ANGÉLICA) es una ópera en un acto de Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Segunda ópera de un trío conocido como IL TRITTICO (EL TRÍPTICO), cada una de las cuales trata de la ocultación...

Spanish conductor and composer Gerónimo Giménez (1854-1923) was dedicated to writing zarzuelas, the populist Spanish genre of lyric-dramatic one-act operas popular at the end of the 19th century and b...

VARIACIONES SOBRE UNA CANCIÓN DE PARVULARIO, Op. 25 es una obra de Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) para piano y orquesta, compuesta en 1913 y estrenada en Berlín ese mismo año con el propio compositor...

Following a disastrous concert tour of Germany in 1885-86, Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS (LE CARNAVAL DES ANIMAUX)...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) comenzó a trabajar en su POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEMA DEL AMOR Y DEL MAR), OP. 19, en 1882. El compositor eligió dos poemas escritos por su amigo Maurice Bouchor co...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his 3 Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter (3 Songs by Older German Poets) in 1899 for high voice and piano. The three songs are: 1. An sie (To Them; text by Friedrich G...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his 3 Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter (3 Songs by Older German Poets) in 1899 for high voice and piano. The three songs are: 1. An sie (To Them; text by Friedrich G...

Le Tombeau de Couperin es una suite para piano solo de Maurice Ravel, compuesta entre 1914 y 1917. La obra consta de seis movimientos, basados en los de una suite barroca tradicional. Cada movimiento...

In October of 1898, Edward Elgar returned home after a long day of teaching, ate dinner, then sat down at the piano to doodle on the keys. Elgar described what followed: “In a little while, soothed an...

Compuesta en 1911, la PETITE SUITE es una de las obras más ligeras de Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Con cuatro movimientos contrastantes, la suite es una atractiva muestra de la memorable escritura melódic...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) escribió la ópera en cinco actos RIENZI, DER LETZTE DER TRIBUNEN (RIENZI, LA ÚLTIMA DE LAS TRIBUNAS), WWV 49, fue escrita en 1840, con un libreto del compositor basado en la...