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Until nowadays, La Traviata is still one of the most successful opera's in the music-literature. Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed this opera in 1853 and it belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middl...

Until nowadays, La Traviata is still one of the most successful opera's in the music-literature. Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed this opera in 1853 and it belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middl...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853), this opera belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middle period of composing....

As a composer Strauss sr. is probably less famous as his son Johann Strauss jr.(1825 - 1899) but his Radeztky March is still one of the most popular pieces in classical music: Every New Year's Day it...

Giuseppe Verdi composed the Opera Attila for the theatre of Venice were it was first performed in 1846. The plot includes the story of Attila, king of the Huns who has invaded Italy. (Concert Band)

Giuseppe Verdi composed the Opera Attila for the theatre of Venice were it was first performed in 1846. The plot includes the story of Attila, king of the Huns who has invaded Italy. (Concert Band)

The overture to The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (1885) catered for the contemporary taste for the exoticism of the orient, whilst remaining perceptibly a satire on the British traditions. It is the o...

The overture to The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (1885) catered for the contemporary taste for the exoticism of the orient, whilst remaining perceptibly a satire on the British traditions. It is the o...

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) started working on his only opera Prince Igor in 1869, but at his death 18 years later it remained unfinished.The splendid overture seems to have been completed by Glazun...

The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (also Eight Little Preludes and Fugues), BWV 553-560, are a collection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. While originally attributed to Bach, scholars suggest that...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (also Eight Little Preludes and Fugues), BWV 553-560, are a collection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. While originally attributed to Bach, scholars suggest that...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Emmanuel Chabrier's opera-comique 'Le Roi malgré lui' debuted at the Opéra-Comique in 1887. The opera was well received, although the librettists were booed at the première. The music was praised and...

Emmanuel Chabrier's opera-comique 'Le Roi malgré lui' debuted at the Opéra-Comique in 1887. The opera was well received, although the librettists were booed at the première. The music was praised and...

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair, Emmanuel Chabrier composed what were to be called 'Pièces pittoresques'. He used 4 of these 10 pieces for piano to orchest...

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair, Emmanuel Chabrier composed what were to be called 'Pièces pittoresques'. He used 4 of these 10 pieces for piano to orchest...

Nielsen's Rhapsodic Overture (1927) represents the romantic musical element in orchestral composition. The sub-title A fantasy journey to FaroÙr belies the imaginative character of the piece, which is...

The 'polonaise' and 'ecossaise' are both dances that were very popular in France and Great Britain at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th. These compositions were mainly writt...

The 'polonaise' and 'ecossaise' are both dances that were very popular in France and Great Britain at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th. These compositions were mainly writt...

Also sprach Zarathustra!', ('Thus Spoke Zarathustra') is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra!'. The compo...

Alexandre Levy (1864 - 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazilian folklore and regional rhythms. In 1890 Al...