Edwin F. Kalmus

Ein Streichquartett, komponiert von Maurice Ravel.

The STRING QUARTET IN E MINOR by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was composed in 1873, one year before his REQUIEM MASS. It was written in his Naples hotel room while awaiting the continuation of rehearsal...

This charming six movement suite is one of Janácek's early works and, unlike his later output, is devoid of large mood swings, instead reflecting a more Victorian mood with its gentility and lightness...

Originally intended as a string quintet, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) reworked the piece for a larger ensemble at the suggestion of his teacher.  Composed when Nielsen was only 22 in 1988, he had it...

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948), der vor allem für seine komischen Opern bekannt ist, begann seine formale Ausbildung an der Königlichen Akademie der Musik in München. Er studierte Kontrapunkt bei Jo...

Das CONCERTO FOR TWO HARPSICHORDS in c-Moll, BWV 1060 geht wahrscheinlich auf ein heute verschollenes Konzert für Oboe und Violine zurück, das Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in den frühen 1720er Ja...

Robert Volkmann (1815-1883) war ein Komponist von einigem Rang unter seinen Zeitgenossen. Er wurde von Robert Schumann zur Musik ermutigt, von Johannes Brahms als "lieber Freund" bezeichnet und von Fr...

The OCTUOR in C, Op. 7, completed in 1900, took Romanian composer Georges Enesco (George Enescu; 1881-1955) one and a half years to write. It carves a different path from the celebrated octet by Mende...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) received a commission in 1884 from the Moscow Society of Artists to "write some sort of musical entr'acte" for Russian actor Ivan Samarin's jubilee to celebrate fi...

Dies ist die siebte von dreizehn Streichersinfonien, die zwischen 1821 und 1823 entstanden, als Mendelssohn zwölf bis vierzehn Jahre alt war. Wie die anderen zwölf wurde sie als Hommage an frühklassis...

The six CONCERTI ARMONICI was long thought to be the work of the violinist-impresario Carlo Ricciotti or composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, but more recent research has revealed the composer to be...

Leroy Anderson composed "Arietta" in 1962 in Woodbury, Connecticut. The main melody first materialized as a brief eight-measure sketch for viola and cello, intended for Leroy Anderson's daughter Jane...

Concerto Grosso Nr. 1 war das erste von zwei Concerti grossi des schweizerisch-amerikanischen Komponisten Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), der das Stück als Antwort auf die Behauptung seiner Schüler schrieb,...

A b-flat trumpet solo composed by Théo Charlier.

A Kalmus Classic Edition

Expertly arranged Violin with Piano Accompaniment music by Tomaso Antonio Vitali from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Baroque era.