Partitions pour orchestre

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ est l'un des deux oratorios de Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) et reste l'œuvre chorale la plus jouée du compositeur. Créée le 19 avril 1867 à l'église de la Madeleine à Paris,...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...

When the American, music-loving philanthropist, Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, convinced the world-renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) to be the new director of her National Conservatory of Mu...

Cette édition de l'œuvre la plus célèbre de George Frideric Handel a été éditée par Ebenezer Prout, et comprend des accompagnements supplémentaires en grande partie réécrits par lui. La préface de Pro...

Cette édition de l'œuvre la plus célèbre de George Frideric Handel a été éditée par Ebenezer Prout, et comprend des accompagnements supplémentaires en grande partie réécrits par lui. La préface de Pro...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ("Notre Dieu est une puissante forteresse") est l'un des hymnes les plus connus du réformateur Martin Luther, et a été utilisé par de nombreux compositeurs, dont J.S. Ba...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed the three-act oratorio Hercules, HWV 60 during a four-week period in 1744. Telling the story of the ancient Greek hero Hercules' death through the jealousy...

During the semi-retirement from his long service as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was tasked with composing a Coronation Mass for the wife of his patron, Prince...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed the sacred choral work Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), K. 47 in 1768, at the age of 12. As Mozart added the subtitle "Offertorium," it is clear t...

The sublime Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in June of 1791 for his friend Anton Stoll, and it premiered on June 23 of that year at St. Stephen's church in...

Regina Caeli in C Major, K. 276 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was written ca. 1779 during the composer's time at the Salzburg Cathedral. The third of three settings of the Marian antiphon Reg...

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...

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, 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...