Partitions pour orchestre

Dernière œuvre composée par Mozart pour la cathédrale de Salzbourg, le titre original de cette composition chorale sacrée, VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE (Vêpres solennelles pour un confesseur) ne co...

This arrangement for orchestra for Three Songs (Drei Lieder) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) has been completed by Willy Weide (1880-1910). Songs included: 1. Liebestreu (True Love), Op. 3, No. 1; 2. W...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) began composition of his Great Mass in C minor, K. 427/417a in 1782 as a promise to himself to write a major work for his native Salzburg. This period was shortly a...

This wonderful, short choral masterpiece has a confusing heritage.  Spuriously attributed in 1910 to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the six-movement MAGNIFICAT was actually composed by...

Ce merveilleux et court chef-d'œuvre choral a un héritage déroutant. Attribué à tort en 1910 à Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), le MAGNIFICAT en six mouvements a en réalité été composé par Fra...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) a écrit son Oratorio de Noël en quelques semaines, achevant l'œuvre dix jours avant sa création le jour de Noël 1858 à Paris. Écrit et structuré dans un style qui s'app...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Don Pasquale, regarded as one of the crowning gems of comic opera, had its first performance on January 3, 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) co...

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) wrote the four-act verismo opera Andrea Chénier in 1896, and it remains his best-known work. It premiered on March 28, 1896, at La Scala in Milan. Loosely based on the lif...

WERTHER, an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), found its inspiration in a novel by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which in turn based its story on the actual suicide of a young m...

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...

A dream inspired Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) to compose The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn, based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The composer originally wrote it for piano in 1912. Fou...

LA BOHÈME (The Bohemian), one of the most beloved and commercially-successful operas, is based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger. With a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G...

LA BOHÈME, l'un des opéras les plus aimés et les plus réussis sur le plan commercial, est basé sur le roman Scènes de la vie de bohème d'Henri Murger, paru en 1851. Sur un livret de Luigi Illica et Gi...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Alexander Borodin's (1833-1887) Symphony No. 3 in A minor was written between 1886 and 1887. However, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, with only a sketch of the first movement and a co...

Probablement composée dans les premiers mois de 1877, la VALSE SCHERZO, OP. 34, occupe une place importante dans l'œuvre de Pierre Ilyitch Tchaïkovski (1840-1893), car elle le prépare à entamer l'anné...

Ayant déjà remporté le prix de Rome de composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) a eu l'occasion d'écrire son opéra LES PECHEURS DE PERLES sur commande. Sur un livret écrit par Eugène Cormon et Michel Car...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

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...