Myron Bickford

Trauermusik

großes Orchester

großes Orchester

Named after the location of a 1930's jazz and blues club near Birmingham, Alabama, and popularized by a bestselling Glenn Miller record in 1939, this great favorite of the swing era adapts very well t...

Unterstufe, leicht

Unterstufe, leicht

In a Persian Market, vom Engländer Albert W. Ketelby im Jahre 1920 komponiert, ist ein kurzes Tongedicht über das bunte Treiben auf einem exotischen persischen Basar. Kameltreiber, Bettler, eine Prinz...

Festive Overture was composed in 1954 to commemorate the 37th birthday of the October Revolution of 1917. With this overture Shostakovich shows his brighter side, in contrast to his melancholy 10th sy...

Preludes and overtures were often written to set the mood of Viennese folk plays and therefore might be used for more than one production. Such was the case for Poet and Peasant, which introduced a co...

The Russian composer Mussorgsky was for the most part self-taught. His contemporaries were not always enthusiastic about the innovations in his music and accused him of lacking technique. Today, howev...

The symphonic poem Night on a Bald Mountain took its inspiration from a story by the well known Russian writer Nicola Gogol. Mussorgsky took no steps to promote his masterpiece and it was only after h...