As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his operetta's made him clear that he had to gif his talents to the genre. Der Zarewitsch is one of tho...
After the enormous success of La Traviata, Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed the operaI Vespri Siciliani. Despite the less succes of the opera the overture is still a populair work in many concertprogr...
The Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet, composed in the autumn of 1869, was Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's first orchestral masterpiece.He was only twent-nine years old and still much influenced by Mily Ba...
Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. From 1893 til...
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed two concertpieces - Konzertstücke - opus 113 and 114 for clarinet, bassethorn and orchestra. These works were dedicated with much respect to the clarinettists Ba...
George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...