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Carlos Gardel (1890 - 1935) was a French Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of h...

Alexey Shor nació en Ucrania en 1970, emigró a Israel en 1991 y ahora vive principalmente en Estados Unidos. Sus composiciones se han escuchado en algunos de los lugares más prestigiosos del mundo, in...

Alexey Shor nació en Ucrania en 1970, emigró a Israel en 1991 y ahora vive principalmente en Estados Unidos. Sus composiciones se han escuchado en algunos de los lugares más prestigiosos del mundo, in...

In 1874 Chabrier composed the 'Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra' but it was only discovered after his death. It is often referred to as the French Horn equivalent of an operatic aria. Chabrier employs...

In 1874 Chabrier composed the 'Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra' but it was only discovered after his death. It is often referred to as the French Horn equivalent of an operatic aria. Chabrier employs...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

Camille Saint-Saëns compuso el "Concierto para violonchelo nº 1" en la menor, Op. 33, en 1872, cuando tenía 37 años. El concierto tiene una estructura única, ya que consta de un movimiento continuo co...

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Chaminade's Concertino for Flute in D major, Op. 107 was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was later arranged for flute and piano. Scholarship indicates that the Concertino was commissioned...

The original manuscript of Neruda's (c.1708) Concerto in Eb Major is found in the Music Department of the National Museum in Prague and is titled: Concerto a Corno Primo del Sig. Neruda. Nowadays it b...

One of the most influential of German romantic composers is Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). He is especially known because of his opera's but he composed some masses and a number of solo concerto's...

Johan Wagenaar (1862 -1941) was a Dutch composer and organist. His compositions include operas, cantatas, organ music, and orchestral works. The music of Hector Berlioz had a modest influence on his w...

In 1873 Tschaikowsky composed his "Six Piano Pieces Opus 19". 15 Years later he arranged the fourth movement, "Nocturne", for cello and orchestra. The composer's preferred cellist, Wilhelm Karl Friedr...

After the Armistice of Versailles was signed on 28 January 1871, the Paris Commune assumed power in Paris on 18 March. Fearing for his safety, Camille Saint-Saëns fled to exile in London. Under these...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) fue uno de los tres grandes comopisitores de la era belcantista que dominó la escena operística italiana en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. "La Sonnambula" es la primera d...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Though now more famous as the father of Richard Strauss, Franz Strauss was a very well-known horn player with a well-documented reputation for being both musically conservative and difficult to work w...

Tschaikovsky composed his Solo Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both some...

The Concerto for Bassoon in B flat, KV 191 is the earliest surviving wind concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It seems unadventurous and conventional, but we must remember Mozart was attempting to wr...

Gioacchino Rossini composed the Variations in Do for Clarinette in 1810 during his last year of study at the Musical Lyceum of Bologna. It was, in all probability, written for a school concert given b...

Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. The composition was...

The famous Meditation from Jules Massenet opera Thaïs is the entr"acte for violin and orchestra played between the scenes of the second act and nowadays often performed as a separate concert piece.

Don Alvaro's aria 'La vita e inferno all'infelice comes in the third act. It is dawn at the encampment at Velletri in Italy, where Don Alvaro has enrolled under the name of Don Federico Herreros. He s...

Prokofiev composed his first piano concerto while at the Conservatory, in 1911 and 1912, and premiered it himself on August 7, 1912. The concerto is a single movement divided into clearly marked secti...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano including Woodland Sketches (with the very popular 'To a Wild Rose'), New Eng...