Partitions pour orchestre

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...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Manon Lescaut, the third opera and first notable success of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), took shape between 1889 and 1892. Five different writers worked on its libretto. The Teatro Regio in Turin saw...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Based on Norse heroic legends, the sprawling operatic drama DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN took Richard Wagner (1813-1883) over twenty-five years to complete. Through a vast web of leitmotifs, melodic fragme...

Le ballet LES SAISONS, opus 67, a été composé par Alexandre Glazounov (1865-1936) pour le célèbre chorégraphe Marius Petipa en 1899. À l'origine, l'œuvre devait être écrite par l'ami de Glazounov, Ric...