Partitions pour orchestre

Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) opéra comique in two acts, Béatrice et Bénédict, was completed in 1862. The French libretto was completed by Berlioz, after a subplot from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth...

Alors qu'Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) est généralement associé à la musique à programme, sa pièce LE CORSAIRE OVERTURE, Op. 21/H. 101 n'a pas de narration derrière la musique, bien que le titre tente un...

Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892) was a colleague and good friend of Bizet's. After Bizet's death, he composed the recitatives still commonly used in Carmen. Between 1880 and 1882, he compiled two orchestral...

One of two orchestral serenades composed by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) that served as early efforts to write orchestral music, this SERENADE No. 1 in D is the composer's first published orchestral wo...

L'histoire complexe de la SYMPHONIE n° 4 en mi bémol (WAB 104) "ROMANTIQUE" d'Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) a commencé avec l'achèvement de la première version en 1874. Il s'ensuivit une deuxième version...

L'œuvre la plus populaire de Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), MIDSOMMARVAKA (MIDSUMMER VIGIL) est également connue sous le sous-titre SWEDISH RHAPSODY NO. 1. Composée en 1903, l'œuvre aurait été créée en répo...

Les Concertos brandebourgeois sont une collection de six œuvres instrumentales de Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) écrites vers ou avant 1721 pour être présentées à Christian Ludwig, le margrave de B...

Hommage à Mozart et à Haydn, la première symphonie de Beethoven est une œuvre relativement conservatrice d'un compositeur par ailleurs audacieux. Malgré sa forme et son écriture classiques, la symphon...

Written by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) between 1803-1804, SYMPHONY No. 3 ‘EROICA' (Heroic Symphony) marks the transition to the composer's innovative middle period, breaking the long-standing bou...

Considered one of the cornerstrones of western music, this bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras is among the best-known and most frequently performed works in classical music. Instrumentatio...

Written between 1811 and 1812 while Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplitz, the Symphony No. 7 is considered among the composer's best works (inc...

La symphonie chorale de Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), la Symphonie n° 9 en ré mineur, opus 125, a été composée entre 1822 et 1824, et est la dernière symphonie achevée du compositeur. Considérée p...

Written between October 1809 and June 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Egmont, Op. 84 is a set of ten incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....

Written between October 1809 and June 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Egmont, Op. 84 is a set of ten incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....

DIE GESCHÖPFE DES PROMETHEUS (Les Créatures de Prométhée), opus 43 est un ballet en deux actes de Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Chorégraphié par le danseur Salvatore Viganò, il s'inspire du mythe...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor in 1803, not long after writing the famous letter to his brothers, the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he lamented his...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat shortly after Vienna surrendered to Napleon's invading forces in the spring of 1809. It received its premiere on November...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) a composé le Concerto pour violon en ré majeur, opus 61, en 1806. La création par le violoniste Franz Clement le 23 décembre 1806 au Theater an der Wien a été mal accu...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote two romances for violin and orchestra, one in F and one in G. While the Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50, was published later and has a...

Beethoven's concerto for violin, cello and piano in C Major, Op. 56, commonly known as the TRIPLE CONCERTO, was composed in 1803 and premiered in 1808.  The choice of the three instruments effect...

Norma is a two-act lyric tragedy by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). A leading example of the bel canto genre, the opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on December 26th, 1831. The story tells of a love t...

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) completed Le Carnaval Romain, Op. 9 (Roman Carnival Overture) in 1843, with the premiere performance taking place on February 3rd, 1844 at the Salle Herz in Paris. Written a...

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) completed The Damnation of Faust, Op. 24 in 1846. A work for four solo voices, chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra, Berlioz originally intended the work, based on Goeth...

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) composed Symphonie Fantastique (Fantastic Symphony), Op. 14/H48 in 1830. Tt is often described as remarkable for a composer's first symphony given its large scale, wide rang...

In January 1834, the great violinist Niccolo Paganini asked Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) to write a viola concerto so that he could showcase his newly-acquired Stradivarius, though Paganini rejected the...