French composer Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote Le roi d'Ys, an opera in three acts and five tableaux, between 1875 and 1888. He was prompted by his wife, contralto Julie de Maligny, to use the Breton...
Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote Concerto for Cello in D minor a few years after the popular Symphonie espagnole in 1876 for Belgian cellist Adolphe Fischer. The following year, Fischer was the soloist...
American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) originally wrote his orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 42 in 1891, although the original version only included four movements. In 1893, MacDowell added the 3rd...
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) wrote his Violin Concerto in E minor over a six-year period from 1838 to 1844 for his childhood friend, the violinist Ferdinand David, who contributed the cadenza in the...
Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, is based on La folle journee ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled...
In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) charmed his way into the music scene in Paris with his Symphony No. 31 in D major, first performed on June 12 at the house of Count Sickingen by the Concer...