Partitions pour orchestre

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

En octobre 1880, alors qu'il achevait sa sixième symphonie, Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) écrivit à son éditeur Fritz Simrock qu'il souhaitait terminer un ensemble de duos pour piano au cours du mois sui...

Symphony No. 16 in C Major, K. 128 was composed when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was 16 years old. It was the first of three written in May 1772 while he stayed in Salzburg. The first movement...

Écrite entre 1879 et 1881, la Symphonie no 6 d'Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) a été considérée par le compositeur comme sa "symphonie la plus audacieuse", bien que de nombreux critiques de l'époque n'aien...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) a achevé sa première œuvre pour orchestre publiée, RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE, entre 1907 et 1908, en la dédiant au violoniste belge Charles de Bériot. L'Orchestre des Concerts Colon...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...

LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, écrit entre 1876 et 1880, est la dernière œuvre composée par Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), qui mourut quatre mois avant la première, une crainte qu'Offenbach exprima par prémon...

The creation of the opera Il Trovatore by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was complicated by a variety of circumstances. The original play by Garcia Gutierrez needed simplifying, and the traditional notion...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Ce "Medley of Well-Known Carols" fait partie de la série Noël d'Arthur Harris. Chants inclus : 1. Le bon roi Wenceslas, 2. Silent Night, 3. Joy to the World, 4. First Noel, 5. Deck the Halls, 6. What...

Écrite à l'origine en 1899 par Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) pour piano solo, puis orchestrée par le compositeur, PAVANE POUR UNE INFANTE DÉFUNTE reste l'une des œuvres les plus populaires de Ravel, même...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) wrote his SYMPHONY No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1, at the beginning of his role as music director for Count Karl Joseph Franz Morzin. Composed in 1757, it opens with a slow...

Probablement écrite par Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) en 1763, la Symphonie no 16 en si bémol (Hob. I:16) est l'une des premières symphonies écrites lorsque Haydn était employé par la famille Esterházy. En...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) a écrit l'opéra en trois actes MAZEPPA entre 1881 et 1883. Sur un livret de Victor Burenin, basé sur le poème Poltava de Pouchkine, l'opéra s'inspire des personna...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) a écrit la courte pièce orchestrale intitulée Sevillaña (Scène Espagnole), opus 7, en 1884, alors que le compositeur avait vingt-six ans. L'année 1884 fut une période de diffi...

AIDA, with music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, is a staple of the operatic repertoire. The story, set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, tells of tragic love challenge...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote Lyric Pieces as a collection of 66 short works for piano. Published in ten volumes, Book VIII, Op. 65, contains six pieces, which includes "Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen" (...

Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) wrote L'amico Fritz in 1891 only one year after his masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana began the Versimo movement. A charming light opera in three acts, L'am...

NABUCCO, a retelling of the biblical story of Jewish exile under the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) first major operatic success, and was written reluctantly, followi...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

La Symphonie no 1 en la bémol, opus 55, d'Edward Elgar (1857-1934) a été achevée en 1908, bien qu'il s'agisse d'une œuvre en gestation depuis une dizaine d'années. Proposée dès 1898 comme une œuvre à...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...