Kalmus Orchestra Library

This work is one of three in a series of Christmas carol collections arranged for orchestra that encourages audience participation.  Carols included in Series I: 1. We Three Kings, 2. O Tannenbau...

This work is one of three in a series of Christmas carol collections arranged for orchestra that encourages audience participation.  Carols included in Series I: 1. We Three Kings, 2. O Tannenbau...

Premiering on May 22, 1813 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vicenza, Milan, and Naples. It wa...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was among those composers in what is c...

El Concierto para violín en si menor, op. 61, de Edward Elgar (1857-1934), una de sus obras más largas y la última en alcanzar una popularidad inmediata, siempre ha figurado en los programas de concie...

El CONCERTO PARA CELLO en do, Hob. VIIb: 1 de Franz Joseph Haydn es un raro caso en el que una obra maestra se perdió, en este caso durante casi 200 años, antes de ser redescubierta. El manuscrito fue...

Tzigane es una composición rapsódica del compositor francés Maurice Ravel. Fue encargada y dedicada a la violinista húngara Jelly d'Arányi, sobrina nieta del influyente virtuoso del violín Joseph Joac...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor in 1803, not long after writing the famous letter to his brothers, the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he lamented his...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat shortly after Vienna surrendered to Napleon's invading forces in the spring of 1809. It received its premiere on November...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) compuso el Concierto para violín en re mayor, Op. 61, en 1806. El estreno por el violinista Franz Clement el 23 de diciembre de 1806 en el Theater an der Wien fue mal...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote two romances for violin and orchestra, one in F and one in G. While the Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50, was published later and has a...

Beethoven's concerto for violin, cello and piano in C Major, Op. 56, commonly known as the TRIPLE CONCERTO, was composed in 1803 and premiered in 1808.  The choice of the three instruments effect...

In January 1834, the great violinist Niccolo Paganini asked Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) to write a viola concerto so that he could showcase his newly-acquired Stradivarius, though Paganini rejected the...

El compositor y violonchelista italiano Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) escribió durante la época clásica y predominantemente en estilo galante. A lo largo de su carrera compuso doce conciertos p...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, in 1878. He composed the work for his longtime friend, famed violinist Joseph Joachim, who premiered it in Leipzig with the Ge...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) compuso el Doble concierto en la menor para violín y violonchelo, Op. 102, en 1887, su última obra para orquesta. Escrito para el violonchelista Robert Hausmann y su amigo...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) compuso el Doble concierto en la menor para violín y violonchelo, Op. 102, en 1887, su última obra para orquesta. Escrito para el violonchelista Robert Hausmann y su amigo...

Max Bruch (1838-1920) compuso su CONCERTO PARA VIOLÍN nº 1 en sol menor, Op. 26 en 1866, estrenado el 24 de abril de 1866, por Otto von Königslow al violín, con Max Bruch dirigiendo. A continuación, e...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) compuso el Andante Spianto y la Gran Polonesa Brillante en mi bemol mayor, Op. 22, entre 1830 y 1834. La polonesa, compuesta originalmente para piano solo y más tarde para...

En 1879, Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) recibió el encargo de Simrock, su editor, de escribir un concierto para violín. Dedicó su CONCERTO PARA VIOLÍN en la menor, Op. 53/B. 108, a Joseph Joachim, que le...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) composed his Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B. 191 in 1894. It was the last solo concerto that the composer wrote, and it was the final work that he wrote during his...

In 1892 Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) embarked on a "farewell" tour of Bohemian and Moravian cities prior to departing for the United States, and he chose his friends, violinist Ferdinand Lachner and cel...

El violinista, compositor y profesor de música húngaro Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) escribió un total de catorce SCENES DE LA CZARDA (también SCÈNES DE LA CSÁRDA) a lo largo de un periodo de cuarenta años,...

Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote his SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE (also sometimes called his VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 2 as it is more a violin concerto than symphony), for the famed violinist Pablo Sarate in 1874. Th...