Entre août 1844 et janvier 1845, Mendelssohn compose ses Six sonates pour orgue, Op. 65. Véritable compendium de l'art de jouer de l'orgue, chaque sonate possède une atmosphère particulière. L'Andante...
Pomp and Circumstance est le titre porté par cinq marches composées entre 1901 et 1930 par le compositeur anglais Sir Edward Elgar. Si la Marcheno 1 est incontestablement la plus célèbre, la Marche no...
The Ave Maria by Franz Schubert is known and loved worldwide and was originally written as part of the song cycle The Lady of the Lake. In the course of time, the German text has been replaced by the...
Considéré aujourd'hui comme un grand classique de la culture américaine, l'opéra Porgy and Bess (1935) fut longtemps controversé et ne connut le succès qu'après la mort de Gershwin (1898 - 1937). Cet...
Master-composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, in 1770, but he lived in Vienna from 1792, until his death in 1827. With his innovative style, he has had a great influence on Western classical...
The celebrated Austrian composer Josef Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) owes his fame predominantly to his symphonies, his masses, his Te Deum, his string quintets and his devotional church music, including...