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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...

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 En...

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 En...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini es una de las más grandes óperas cómicas. Basada en una excelente obra de Beaumarchais, "El barbero de Sevilla" deleita al público con sus personajes agudamen...

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his second piano concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his 19-year-old son Maxim who premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. The eager, brilli...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Duo Brillant Guillaume Tell, by French composer Jules Demersseman, is based on themes after Rossini's famous opera. It is written for Flute and Oboe. In this arrangement the solo part of the Oboe can...

Carl Heinrich Hübler was hornist in the 'Dresden Royal Court Orchestra'. In October 1849 he was engaged in a private performance in the apartment of Johann Rudolph Lewy in Dresden of Robert Schumann's...

Carl Heinrich Hübler was hornist in the 'Dresden Royal Court Orchestra'. In October 1849 he was engaged in a private performance in the apartment of Johann Rudolph Lewy in Dresden of Robert Schumann's...

Hummel wrote his "Concerto a Trombe Principale" (Trumpet Concerto in E Major) for Viennese trumpet virtuoso and inventor of the keyed trumpet, Anton Weidinger (as had Joseph Haydn). It was written in...

Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had al...

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752 -1790) was a German oboist and composer. He started playing with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim at the age of 12 and became a full...

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752 -1790) was a German oboist and composer. He started playing with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim at the age of 12 and became a full...

In 1909, Gabriel Fauré, Director of the Paris Conservatoire, named Claude Debussy to its Board of Directors. In July, Debussy sat on the jury for the conservatory's annual woodwind 'concours' (exit ex...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...

Reinhold Glière composed the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in 1950 for the Russian hornist Valery Polekh. Nowadays it's the best known of Glière's acclaimed works and despite being composed in the 1...

Gioacchino Rossini is primarily known for his opera's, but also composed for other forces like this 'Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra'. It is generally believed that Ross...