Edwin F. Kalmus

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

Composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) in 1830, the two-act opera I Capuletti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Mantagues) stands as one of only two successful opera adaptations of Shakespeare's R...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

La Symphonie no 1 en la bémol, opus 55, d'Edward Elgar (1857-1934) a été achevée en 1908, bien qu'il s'agisse d'une œuvre en gestation depuis une dizaine d'années. Proposée dès 1898 comme une œuvre à...

La Symphonie no 1 en la bémol, opus 55, d'Edward Elgar (1857-1934) a été achevée en 1908, bien qu'il s'agisse d'une œuvre en gestation depuis une dizaine d'années. Proposée dès 1898 comme une œuvre à...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Manon Lescaut, the third opera and first notable success of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), took shape between 1889 and 1892. Five different writers worked on its libretto. The Teatro Regio in Turin saw...

Manon Lescaut, the third opera and first notable success of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), took shape between 1889 and 1892. Five different writers worked on its libretto. The Teatro Regio in Turin saw...

The ROMANCE in F minor, Op. 11 (B. 39) was composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in 1877, reworked from the Andantino movement of his 1873 STRING QUARTET NO. 5 in F minor, a work written before he wa...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Based on Norse heroic legends, the sprawling operatic drama DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN took Richard Wagner (1813-1883) over twenty-five years to complete. Through a vast web of leitmotifs, melodic fragme...

Le ballet LES SAISONS, opus 67, a été composé par Alexandre Glazounov (1865-1936) pour le célèbre chorégraphe Marius Petipa en 1899. À l'origine, l'œuvre devait être écrite par l'ami de Glazounov, Ric...

Le ballet LES SAISONS, opus 67, a été composé par Alexandre Glazounov (1865-1936) pour le célèbre chorégraphe Marius Petipa en 1899. À l'origine, l'œuvre devait être écrite par l'ami de Glazounov, Ric...

Le ballet LES SAISONS, opus 67, a été composé par Alexandre Glazounov (1865-1936) pour le célèbre chorégraphe Marius Petipa en 1899. À l'origine, l'œuvre devait être écrite par l'ami de Glazounov, Ric...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) a composé des SONGS TO POEMS BY RUECKERT (SONGS AFTER RÜCKERT ; RÜCKERT-LIEDER) entre 1901 et 1902. Elles n'ont pas été conçues comme un cycle, chaque chanson n'étant reliée...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) a composé des SONGS TO POEMS BY RUECKERT (SONGS AFTER RÜCKERT ; RÜCKERT-LIEDER) entre 1901 et 1902. Elles n'ont pas été conçues comme un cycle, chaque chanson n'étant reliée...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...