Partituras para orquesta

Esta maravillosa y breve obra maestra coral tiene una herencia confusa. Atribuida falsamente en 1910 a Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), el MAGNIFICAT, de seis movimientos, fue compuesto en rea...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) escribió su Oratorio de Noël en cuestión de semanas, terminando la obra diez días antes de su estreno en la Navidad de 1858 en París. Escrita y estructurada en un estil...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Don Pasquale, regarded as one of the crowning gems of comic opera, had its first performance on January 3, 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) co...

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) wrote the four-act verismo opera Andrea Chénier in 1896, and it remains his best-known work. It premiered on March 28, 1896, at La Scala in Milan. Loosely based on the lif...

WERTHER, an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), found its inspiration in a novel by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which in turn based its story on the actual suicide of a young m...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) escribió música para la obra de William Shakespeare "Sueño de una noche de verano" en dos ocasiones distintas. Primero escribió la obertura de concierto en Mi Mayor, Op....

A dream inspired Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) to compose The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn, based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The composer originally wrote it for piano in 1912. Fou...

LA BOHÈME, una de las óperas más queridas y de mayor éxito comercial, está basada en la novela de 1851 Escenas de la vida bohemia de Henri Murger. Con libreto de Luigi Illica y Giuseppe Giacosa, Giaco...

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...