Presto is the fourth and final movement of the divertimento Ein musikalischer Spaß (A Musical Joke) KV 522 and is used for many years as the theme tune to the BBC's 'Horse of the Year Show' and other...
François-Joseph Gossec (1734 - 1829) was one of the principal composers of 18th-century France, whose symphonies and chamber works helped shape the orchestral forms of the Classical period. Gossec was...
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. His works include symphonies, ballets, operas and seven string quartets in ad...
'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...
Several years before he finished his first opera, Giacomo Puccini composed a number of smaller orchestral works and some chamber music as well. Between 1881 and 1993 he composed six string quartets in...
Pascual Marquina Narro (Calatayud, Saragossa, 16. Mai 1873 - Madrid, 13. Juli 1948) war ein spanischer Komponist und Dirigent. Er ist der älteste der musikalischen Brüder Ernesto Marquina Narro (Kompo...
