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The opera or 'farsa comica' in one act 'La Scala di Seta' (The Silken Ladder) by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was first performed at the 'San Moisé' theatre in Venice on 9 May 1812. It is the story...

The 'suite Arogno' is a musical evocation of the history of this small village on the Alps, at the border with Italy. The first movement describes the travel of architect Adamo da Arogno to Trento whe...

Henk Ummels est l'auteur de cet arrangement, facile à jouer, de la très célèbre pièce de Maurice Ravel et qui est destiné aux orchestres de force moyenne. Voici un arrangement tout à fait indiqué pour...

Gioacchino Rossini. Grande Fanfare, Le Rendez-vous de Chasse Rossini wohnte schon ca. vier Jahre in Frankreich, als er 1828 sein 'Le Rendez-vous de Chasse' schrieb. Es wurde in einer romantischen und...

The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ball...

Gioacchino Rossini is famous as composer of a fabulous series op splendid operas of which the overtures are often most popular and appreciated. The opera 'La Cambiale di Matrimonio' (the change of the...

For Bedrich Smetana, the polka was the source of typical Czech music par excellence. We do not only find it in his operas, symphonic works and chamber music, but he also wrote single or separate polka...

Mussorgsky wrote 'Pictures at an Exhibition' after visiting an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartmann in 1874. This sixteen part suite is extremely well suited to be performed by a...

Ceci est le quatrième mouvement de la suite en ré-mineur (HWV 437) pour clavecin solo. L'œuvre est devenu très connu par son emploi dans la bande son du film Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick de 1975. B...

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - Londres, 1934) était l'un des premiers grands compositeurs anglais qui a composé des œuvres originales pour orchestre d'harmonie. Il a écrit des opéras, des œuvres cho...

Shéhérazade opus 35 est une suite symphonique composée par Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov à Saint Petersbourg en 1888. La suite est basée sur le célèbre recueil de contes arabes 'Les Mille et une nuits'. Cet...

Grieg composed this funeral march for his friend, Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak who died at the age of 23. Grieg took copies of this piece on all his travels as he wished that it would be played...

La suite Pines of Rome est la deuxième oeuvre orchestrale de la trilogie romaine de Respghi. Cette suite, composée pour orchestre symphonique en 1923, dépeint divers endroits de Rome où poussent des p...

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In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in 1901 and dedicated it to the composer Granville Bantock. Although this second march is less known than the first, it is not less beautif...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...