Partituras para orquesta

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

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....

The Nutcracker is a two-act “fairy ballet” written by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the original 1892 pro...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five...

These Three Marches, K. 408 (K. 383e [No. 1], K. 385a [No. 2], K. 383f [No. 3]) were composed for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1782. Instrumentation: 2.2.0.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str...

French composer Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) originally composed the ballet La tragédie de Salomé in 1907 for a commission from Jacques Rouché for American dancer Loie Fuller and the Théâtre des Arts,...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamá Ganso) de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) se inspira en los cuentos de hadas de Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy y Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compuso el primer movimiento,...

Ma mère l'Oye (Mamá Oca) de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) se inspira en los cuentos de hadas de Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy y Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel compuso el primer movimiento, P...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) escribió el vals La plus que lente para piano solo en 1910, una obra que puede o no haberse inspirado en una pequeña escultura de su chimenea. El título sugiere irónicamente...

Durante su luna de miel italiana en 1891, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) se encontró con el cuadro de Tiziano El milagro de un marido celoso en Padua. El resultado fue su primera obra coral, HYMNUS AMORIS,...

VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES es una de las numerosas obras de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) que reflejan su fascinación por la contagiosa sencillez del vals. Tomando como punto de partida las coleccione...

MIROIRS ("Espejos"), una suite de cinco movimientos escrita originalmente por Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) para piano solo, fue escrita entre 1904 y 1905, y cada movimiento estaba dedicado a un compañero...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

VESTAS FEUER (LA LLAMA VESTAL) para cuarteto vocal y orquesta es el único fragmento conservado de una ópera proyectada por Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), con libreto del dramaturgo y empresario Ema...

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1dPicc).2.2+BCl..1: 4Sax(opt.): 2.3.3.1: Perc(2)...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

En un principio, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) pretendía que Images pour orchestre fuera una continuación de la primera serie de Images para piano solo. Sin embargo, hacia 1905, decidió orquestar las com...

La obra más larga de Ravel, con casi una hora de duración, el ballet completo en un acto Dafnis y Cloe, fue descrita por el compositor como una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonía coreográfica). Rave...

Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985) has been described as the first Swedish modernist composer. Influenced by Sibelius in his early years, he later absorbed the work of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Hindemith...

While his Symphony No. 9 is better known, Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 7 is argued by many to be his best symphonic work. Inspired in part by his friend Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No....