Baton Music

A relatively small number of Antonio Vivaldi's solo concerto's are those (3) written for ‘flautino', a ‘little flute' or high-pitched recorder that is the equivalent of today's piccolo. One of these c...

Mozart wrote his Flute Quartet in G (KV 285a) for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello. In this arrangement by Dutch arranger Olivier Bruning it is transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Basset Horn and Bass Clar...

Mozart wrote his Flute Quartet in C (KV 285a) for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello. In this arrangement by Dutch arranger Olivier Bruning it is transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Basset Horn and Bass Clar...

Mozart composed along with the divertimenti in D (KV 136) and B-flat (KV 137) the divertimento in F (KV 138) in early 1772. He wrote these as a string quartet but his father Leopold Mozart gave them t...

Le tombeau de Couperin ist eine Suite für Klavier solo von Maurice Ravel, die zwischen 1914 und 1917 komponiert wurde und aus sechs Sätzen besteht, die auf denen einer traditionellen Barocksuite basie...

'Lyric Pieces' (Norwegian: Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 (Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The colle...

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane für eine tote Prinzessin) ist ein bekanntes Stück für Klavier solo, das Maurice Ravel 1899 schrieb, als er am Pariser Konservatorium bei Gabriel Fauré Kompositi...

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane für eine tote Prinzessin) ist ein bekanntes Stück für Klavier solo, das Maurice Ravel 1899 schrieb, als er am Pariser Konservatorium bei Gabriel Fauré Kompositi...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 -1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality o...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality o...

Rinaldo' was the first opera Georg Friederich Händel produced for London and the first Italian opera composed specifically for the London stage. Even now it's still one of his most performed opera's....

Rinaldo' was the first opera Georg Friederich Händel produced for London and the first Italian opera composed specifically for the London stage. Even now it's still one of his most performed opera's....

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 -1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song 'Rule, Britannia!', which has become a second national anthem to 'God Save the Queen', and the song...

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 -1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song 'Rule, Britannia!', which has become a second national anthem to 'God Save the Queen', and the song...

The 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (HWV 351) is a suite for wind instruments composed by Georg Friederich Händel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Gre...

The 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (HWV 351) is a suite for wind instruments composed by Georg Friederich Händel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Gre...

The 'Water Music' is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by Georg Friederich Händel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request fo...

The 'Water Music' is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by Georg Friederich Händel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request fo...