Edwin F. Kalmus

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, L. 86) was composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) in 1894. A symphonic poem based on Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem L’après-midi d’un f...

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) wrote 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano as a way to incorporate the music of his youth into his compositions, and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2 (1847) is b...

This is the beautiful slow movement from Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA in the original edition and orchestration, including two harps and organ. Instrumentation: 1+Picc.2.2.0: 0.0.0.0: Hp(2): Org: S...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) schrieb dieses Werk für Soloklavier und Orchester unter dem Titel Scherzo in d-Moll 1886 ursprünglich für den Dirigenten und Pianisten Hans von Bülow, der einen großen Einf...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

EUGENE ONEGIN, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin, is Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does not...

This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra. This version of Variations on a Rococo Theme, heavily edited by Wilhelm Fitze...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

The Cambridge Greek Play produced Aristophane's The Wasps as Trinity College, Cambridge in 1909, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was asked to compose incidental music to accompany the productio...

Der deutsche Komponist Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) ist heute weniger bekannt, war aber zu Lebzeiten ein beliebter und angesehener Komponist. Sein bekanntestes Werk sind die Spanischen Tänze op. 12,...

Sergej Prokofjew (1891-1953) widmete sein CONCERTO für Klavier Nr. 1 in D-Dur, op. 10, seinem Lehrer Nikolai Tscherepnin. Er komponierte es in den Jahren 1911 und 1912 und brachte es am 18. Mai 1912 i...

Der Freischuetz (The Marksman), Op. 77, J.277 has come to be considered the first German Romantic opera. Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) composed Der Freischuetz between 1817 and 1821, based on Johan...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Die sieben letzten Worte Christi") ist eines der beiden Oratorien von Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) und bleibt das am häufigsten aufgeführte Chorwerk des Komponisten. Das am...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ('A Mighty Fortress Is Our God') is among the best known hymns written by reformer Martin Luther, and has been used by many composers, including by J.S. Bach, in various...

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) wrote the four-act verismo opera Andrea Chénier in 1896, and it remains his best-known work. It premiered on March 28, 1896, at La Scala in Milan. Loosely based on the lif...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote Lyric Pieces as a collection of 66 short works for piano. Published in ten volumes, Book VIII, Op. 65, contains six pieces, which includes "Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen" (...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) komponierte seine Symphonie Nr. 6 in d-Moll, op. 104 zwischen 1918 und 1923, einer Zeit, die von den politischen Umwälzungen in Finnland nach der Unabhängigkeit von Russland...