Neben Opern und Balletten komponierte Léo Delibes auch geistliche Werke wie die bekannte 'Messe brêve'. Im Original für Kinderstimmen und Orgel konzipiert, wird sie auch oft mit Frauenstimmen aufgefüh...
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. He is considered one of England's greatest composers, and he is honoured for h...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), wrote an enormous amount of music in all the forms of his day except opera; today, only a few of his works are in the concert repertory, but these are very pop...
Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it's quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The Carmen Fantasy, together with Z...
The African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed his opera Treemonisha in 1910 but it was not performed in its entirety until 1970, when the piano score was rediscovered. The music of Treem...
In 1877 Dvorak was requested by the violinist Josef Markus to write a new piece for him. Dvorak went back to an earlier piece and transformed the slow movement of the String Quartet opus 7 into the Ro...
For the Danse Macabre, Saint-SaÙns turned to the 'Dance of the Death', which appears in various versions in the Art of the later Middle Ages. Saint-SaÙns evokes (using the xylophone) the midnight cavo...
