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The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. While the first movement of his famous fifth symphony is more often performed, the majestic and triumphant finale beauti...

'Anniversary Overture' was commissioned in 1968 as a twenty-first birthday piece for Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and is a four-minute firework display for orchestra. Within the framework of a two-...

August Söderman (1832-1876) est considéré comme le premier compositeur romantique national de Suède. Son père Johan Wilhelm, qui dirigeait des orchestres de théâtre, lui a transmis un grand talent mus...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, né Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer (1791-1864), est un compositeur d'opéra allemand qui a lancé à Paris la vogue de l'opéra romantique spectaculaire. Il grandit au sein d'une riche famill...

La Marche en mi bémol majeur, WAB 116, a été composée le 12 août 1865, pendant son séjour à Linz. La pièce a été écrite pour la fanfare militaire du régiment de tirailleurs local, en remerciement de l...

Parmi les nombreuses compositions populaires de Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849), aucune n'est mieux adaptée à l'orchestre de concert que sa Polonaise militaire (Op. 40 n° 1). Cette transcription habile...

Nikolai Andreevič Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan in 1899-1900. Ironically, although he composed another 14 operas and countless orchestral works, an extremely b...

Three Chorale Preludes epitomizes the perfect teaching piece and performance work. Although based on familiar chorale melodies, the work is an original. Each prelude reflects contrasting tempi and tex...

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins dedicated his landmark mass The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to the victims of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo. More recently it is been associated with remembrances of 9/11. Th...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The Csardas, sung by Rosalinde demands great virtuosity and gypsy fee...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

L'œuvre la plus connue de Kurt Weill (1900-1950) est "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("L'Opéra de quat'sous") (1928), une reprise de "The Beggar's Opera" de John Gay, écrite en collaboration avec Bertolt Brech...

Le compositeur espagnol Pedro Iturralde (*1929) doit être considéré à la fois comme le pionnier et le nid de la musique jazz espagnole. Pequena Czarda (petite danse) est un petit morceau solo virtuose...

Johannes Brahms composed the Alt-Rhapsodie in September of 1869 as a wedding gift to the daughter of his close friend and confidant, Clara Schumann. The Alt-Rhapsodie is set to several verses of a poe...

Chaminade's Concertino for Flute in D major, Op. 107 was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was later arranged for flute and piano. Scholarship indicates that the Concertino was commissioned...

Nowadays, Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment because of the misunderstanding of the very realistic plot. C...

Les Planetes du compositeur Gustav Holst est une suite orchestrale en sept mouvements dans laquelle chaque mouvement porte le nom d'une planète du système solaire et du caractère astrologique correspo...

Willis sind feenhafte Wesen. Wenn eine Frau unverheiratet an gebrochenem Herzen stirbt, zwingen sie den Herzensbrecher dazu, sich zu Tode zu tanzen. Diese Legende wählte Giacomo Puccini für seine erst...