Partitions pour orchestre

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) composed the beautiful Serenade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 11 in 1884, before his "creative crisis" of 1890. For a small orchestra, it was premiered in 1885, his friend and m...

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63, was composed in 1911, with the premiere taking place at the London Musical Festival by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Elgar conducting, on May 2...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) a commencé à travailler sur sa SYMPHONIE no 4, opus 36, en 1877 et l'a achevée l'année suivante. Commencée peu après que Tchaïkovski eut établi une relation avec...

Written three years after his Manfred Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was composed in 1888. Although it has been surpassed in popularity a bit over t...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) a écrit à deux reprises de la musique pour la pièce de William Shakespeare A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Rêve d'une nuit d'été). Il a d'abord écrit l'ouverture de concert en...

The Nutcracker is a two-act “fairy ballet” written by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the original 1892 pro...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five...

These Three Marches, K. 408 (K. 383e [No. 1], K. 385a [No. 2], K. 383f [No. 3]) were composed for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1782. Instrumentation: 2.2.0.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Ma mère l'Oye de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) s'inspire des contes de Charles Perrault, de Madame d'Aulnoy et de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel a composé le premier mouvement Pavane de la Belle...

Ma mère l'Oye de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) s'inspire des contes de Charles Perrault, de Madame d'Aulnoy et de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Ravel a composé le premier mouvement Pavane de la Belle...

Lors de son voyage de noces en Italie en 1891, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) est tombé sur le tableau du Titien intitulé Le miracle de l'époux jaloux à Padoue. Il en résulta sa première œuvre chorale, HYMN...

VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES est l'une des nombreuses œuvres de Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) qui reflètent sa fascination pour la simplicité contagieuse de la valse. S'inspirant des recueils de valses...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

VESTAS FEUER (LA FLAMME VESTALE) pour quatuor vocal et orchestre est le seul fragment conservé d'un projet d'opéra de Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), sur un livret du dramaturge et impresario Emanue...

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1dPicc).2.2+BCl..1: 4Sax(opt.): 2.3.3.1: Perc(2)...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) avait initialement prévu que les Images pour orchestre seraient une suite à la première série d'Images pour piano seul. Cependant, vers 1905, il a décidé d'orchestrer les co...

Le ballet complet en un acte Daphnis et Chloé, l'œuvre la plus longue de Ravel (près d'une heure), a été décrit par le compositeur comme une "symphonie chorégraphique". Ravel a commencé l'œuvre, une r...