Partituras para orquesta

Este "Medley of Well-Known Carols" forma parte de la serie navideña de Arthur Harris. Villancicos incluidos: 1. 1. El Buen Rey Wenceslao, 2. Noche de Paz, 3. Alegría para el Mundo, 4. First Noel, 5. D...

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...

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...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

La Sinfonía n.º 1 en la bemol, Op. 55, de Edward Elgar (1857-1934) se terminó en 1908, aunque fue una obra que se gestó durante una década. Originalmente propuesta ya en 1898 como una obra programátic...

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...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Manon Lescaut, the third opera and first notable success of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), took shape between 1889 and 1892. Five different writers worked on its libretto. The Teatro Regio in Turin saw...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Based on Norse heroic legends, the sprawling operatic drama DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN took Richard Wagner (1813-1883) over twenty-five years to complete. Through a vast web of leitmotifs, melodic fragme...

El ballet LAS ESTACIONES (LES SAISONS), Op. 67, fue compuesto por Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) para el famoso coreógrafo Marius Petipa en 1899. Aunque en un principio iba a ser escrita por Riccardo...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) compuso CANCIONES A POEMAS DE RUECKERT (CANCIONES DESPUÉS DE RÜCKERT; RÜCKERT-LIEDER) entre 1901 y 1902. No fueron concebidas como un ciclo, ya que cada canción sólo estaba c...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

While librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) had worked previously in 1871-72 to write Thespis, a work for the Christmas season, the 1875 one-act comic opera Tria...

HOLOUBEK (LA PALOMA SILVESTRE), Op. 110/B. 198, es un poema orquestal compuesto por Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) en 1896. Revisado en enero del año siguiente, cuenta la historia de una mujer que envenen...