Marches pour harmonie

Forty six years after having composed his first 'Fest Marsch' op. 49, Johann Strauss, wrote a second work with this title, 'Fest Marsch' op. 452. This march was one of the two musical tributes on the...

The 'Funeral March of a Marionette' (Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was written in 1872 for solo piano and orchestrated by the composer in 1879. The 'Funeral...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

L'opérette "Babes in Toyland" a été composée par Victor Herbert (1859-1924) en 1903. Dans cette opérette sur un livret de Glen MacDonough, divers personnages des "comptines de la Mère l'Oie" sont réun...

L'opérette "Babes in Toyland" a été composée par Victor Herbert (1859-1924) en 1903. Dans cette opérette sur un livret de Glen MacDonough, divers personnages des "comptines de la Mère l'Oie" sont réun...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his talen...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his talen...

For the Künstlerball (Artists' Ball) in the Sophiensaal in Vienna in 1858 Johann Strauss arranged a quadrille with melodies of various composers as a mirror of the running concert season 1857/58. In f...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the 'Bohemian Sousa'. Today his marches...

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. In 1902 he co...

Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827) was and Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. In 1899, the Italian city of Como hosted a celebration...

Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827) was and Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. In 1899, the Italian city of Como hosted a celebration...

Besetzung: Eine Aufführung ohne Chor und Solist ist möglich, da alle Choreinsätze zur Unterstützung ins Orchester eingearbeitet wurden. Alt- und Kontrabass-Klarinette, Bass-Saxophon und Violoncello si...

Zu diesem Klassiker muss man nicht viel sagen. Peter Züll hat den Marsch geschickt gekürzt, deswegen jetzt ab guter Unterstufe spielbar. Din A4

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...

The opera-ballet Mlada was an epic project involving six different Russiancomposers including Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Unfortunately the work didn't ever receive a performance howevert...

The Gran Finale from the second act of Verdi's famous opera Aida, composed in 1869, is a complex part of the drama as in one single scene many different characters, allwith contrasting emotions, appea...

Richard Wagner est un compositeur unique dans l'histoire. Il enrichit l'harmonie d'agrégations jusqu'alors inusitées, ses orchestrations sont différentes de celles de ses contemporains, ses mélodies s...

Rienzi remains one of the most popular works from the ?master of romantic opera?, Richard Wagner. The Friedensmarsch from the fourth act (scene 2) of Rienzi is subdued and solemn in character: in the...

Cette pièce, comme son titre l'indique, rassemble les plus grands triomphes lyriques de Verdi. Parmi ses plus grands succès, citons Nabucco, en 1842, qui marque un tournant après le flop d'un précéden...

L'originalité instrumentale et musicale de Berlioz apparaît encore au XXIe siècle avec la même fraîcheur, que celle qui présida lors de la création de l'oeuvre. Pour cette nouvelle transcription pour...

Cette oeuvre rassemble trois fragments de trois célèbres opéras de Giuseppe Verdi. L'éclatante ouverture est donnée par la Marche triomphale extrait d'Aïda, suivie par deux motifs distincts de La forc...