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In 1933 Revueltas composed his brief symphonic poem "Janitzio" named after an island in Lake Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacán, west of Mexico City, whose population had derived its income largely...

Although Arturo Marquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzones in the early 1990s. This vene...

Le "Vol du bourdon" est un interlude orchestral écrit par Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov pour son opéra "Le conte du tsar Saltan". Le morceau clôt le troisième acte, au cours duquel l'oiseau-cygne magique tr...

Maurice Ravel a achevé en 1905 son cycle pour piano "Miroirs", dont certaines parties ont été orchestrées par le compositeur lui-même. La quatrième partie, "Alborada del gracioso", créée en 1919 à Par...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Parade est un ballet sur une musique d'Erik Satie et un scénario en un acte de l'artiste français Jean Cocteau, composé en 1916-1917 pour les Ballets russes de Sergei Diaghilev et créé en 1917 à Paris...

By Strauss est une chanson composée par George Gershwin en 1936. Elle rend hommage à la musique de Johann Strauss père et Johann Strauss fils. La chanteuse chante qu'elle n'aime pas Broadway, Irving B...

'Il Convegno' (in Italian 'the meeting' or the 'appointment') for two clarinets and piano was composed by Amilcare Ponchielli in 1857. 'Il Covegno' is in three sections, linked by cadenzas and other c...

En tant que compositeur, Edward MacDowell est surtout connu pour ses deux concertos pour piano, un grand nombre de compositions pour piano, plusieurs suites instrumentales importantes et un grand nomb...

The Dance Of The Jesters was composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens. The ballet is not based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, but on a contemporary Russian fantasy-play Sneg...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

French composer Daniel François Esprit Aubers extensive outputconsisted mainly of operas, but unfortunately today only two of theseare still well known, including the comic opera Fra Diavolo. The stor...