Espen Andersen

Santiago Lope was born in Ezcaray (La Rioja, Spain) on May 23. 1871. He studied violin and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Madrid. When the city of Valencia organized a municipal band in...

Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the 'Coronation March' by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the "Coronation March" by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

To celebrate the second anniversary of Tivoli in Copenhagen, Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye - known as ''The Strauss of the North' - composed the Champagne Galop in 1845. The piece is a good ex...

To celebrate the second anniversary of Tivoli in Copenhagen, Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye - known as "the Strauss of the North" - composed the "Champagne Galop" in 1845. The piece is a good e...

Ferdinand Kühne was a German composer who lived from 1858 to 1939. He wrote many marches, and this is the most well-known one. The march, also known as Jour de Fete, is a march in traditional german s...

Santiago Lope was born in Ezcaray (La Rioja, Spain) on May 23. 1871. He studied violin and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Madrid. When the city of Valencia organized a municipal band in...