Baton Orchestral

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...

Entry March of the Boyars, composed in 1895 by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, has been a popular orchestral favorite ever since and one of the best-known examples of Scandinavian orchestral m...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. His polka opus 332 'Eljen a Magyar!' (Hungaria...

Julius Fucík était un compositeur tchèque, avec plus de 400 marches, polkas et valses à son actif. La plupart de ses œuvres étant destinées à des orchestres militaires, il est parfois surnommé le "Sou...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the "Bohemian Sousa". Today his marches...

Johann Schrammel (1850 1893) was an Austrian composer and musician. In 1878 he founded with his brother Josef Schrammel and Anton Strohmayer a trio; they were later joined by the clarinettist Georg Da...

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. The Homage March is one of the...

Julius Fucík was a Czech composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is sometimes known as the 'Bohemian Sousa'. Today his marches...

Le Villi ("Les Willis" ou "Les Fées") est un opéra-ballet en deux actes et la première œuvre scénique de Puccini. Les trois mouvements orchestraux - parte sinfonica - de l'opéra, "Preludio", "L'Abband...

Le Villi ("Les Willis" ou "Les Fées") est un opéra-ballet en deux actes et la première œuvre scénique de Puccini. Les trois mouvements orchestraux - parte sinfonica - de l'opéra, "Preludio", "L'Abband...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

The Viennese composer Johann Strauss jr. (1825 - 1899) composed besides his famous waltzes and operettas also a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees'...

La polka Fledermaus est l'un des six arrangements de danse sur des thèmes de l'opérette "Die Fledermaus" de Johann Strauss. Elle a été créée en 1874 au Theater an der Wien et, selon les journaux de l'...

Strauss a composé la "Annen-Polka" en 1852 pour célébrer le jour de la Sainte Anne. Cette polka a été très populaire dès sa création en 1852, lorsque les journaux viennois ont rapporté ce qui suit : "...

Emmerich Kálmán's most beloved operetta 'Die Csárdásfürstin' had its first performance at the Vienna 'Johann Strauss-Theater' in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give h...

Emmerich Kálmán's most beloved operetta 'Die Csárdásfürstin' had its first performance at the Vienna 'Johann Strauss-Theater' in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5...

Besides operettas Franz Lehár also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches and a number of waltzes. The most popular of these waltzes is 'Gold und Silber' (Gold and Silver) which he composed for Princ...

À propos de l'oratorio "Elias" de Mendelssohn, le Times a déclaré : "Il n'y a jamais eu de triomphe plus complet - jamais de reconnaissance plus complète et plus rapide d'une grande œuvre d'art". Le l...

En 1869, Josef Strauss passe l'été avec son frère Johann à Pavlovsk, près de Saint-Pétersbourg. Lorsqu'il se remet d'une maladie, il écrit une polka particulièrement rapide et donne à l'oeuvre le titr...

Tristsch Tratsch était un magazine satirique publié à Vienne en 1858. En 1858, il publie un portrait de Johann Strauss : on craint, dit le rapport, que les saisons de concerts de Strauss en Russie et...