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Il Pirata' (The Pirate) was Bellini's third opera. 'Il Pirata' is an opera in two acts to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play 'Bertram', or 'The Castle of...

Joyeuse Marche by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces (the other was "Prélude Pastoral") first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the...

The 'Limpid Stream' was by far the most popular of Shostakovich ballets. Its deliberately simple-minded melodies, banal harmonies, straightforward rhythms, and garish colors had the work playing succe...

The Limpid Stream" was by far the most popular of Shostakovich ballets. Its deliberately simple-minded melodies, banal harmonies, straightforward rhythms, and garish colors had the work playing succes...

Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23...

In 1933 Revueltas composed his brief symphonic poem 'Janitzio' named after an island in Lake Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacßn, west of Mexico City, whose population had derived its income largely...

This ouverture-like symphonic movement in C-minor has been ascribed in the past to as well Anton Bruckner as Gustav Mahler. But in the eighty's of the last century it became almost certain that Mahler...

This ouverture-like symphonic movement in C-minor has been ascribed in the past to as well Anton Bruckner as Gustav Mahler. But in the eighty's of the last century it became almost certain that Mahler...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the 'Coronation March' by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the "Coronation March" by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

The diptych 'Estampes Simfoniques' (Symphonic Images) by the Spanish (Catalan) composer Joaquim Serra (1907-1957) would not be a unique piece in its production if it wasn't because in this occasion th...

The diptych "Estampes Simfòniques" (Symphonic Images) by the Spanish (Catalan) composer Joaquim Serra (1907-1957) would not be a unique piece in its production if it wasn"t because in this occasion th...

Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906 - 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes. He was fascinated by creolized Afro-Cuban rhythms and these Creole themes were characteristic of hi...

Alejandro García Caturla (1906 - 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes. He was fascinated by creolized Afro-Cuban rhythms and these Creole themes were characteristic of hi...

Maurice Ravel ist vielleicht am besten für sein Orchesterwerk "Bolero" (1928) bekannt, das er für trivial hielt und einmal als "ein Stück für Orchester ohne Musik" bezeichnete. Bolero ist ein einsätzi...

Maurice Ravel ist vielleicht am besten für sein Orchesterwerk Bolero (1928) bekannt, das er für trivial hielt und einmal als ein Stück für Orchester ohne Musik bezeichnete. Bolero ist ein einsätziges...

Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra' (Enigma), Op. 36, commonly referred to as the 'Enigma Variations', is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar...

Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra(Enigma), Op. 36, commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1...

In 1899 Edward Elgar finished his best-known large-scale composition, the 'Enigma Variations'. Elgar dedicated the piece to 'my friends pictured within', each variation being an affectionate portrayal...

In 1899 Edward Elgar finished his best-known large-scale composition, the "Enigma Variations". Elgar dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within", each variation being an affectionate portrayal...

Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878 and first performed at a Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg on February 1878 under Nikolai Rubinste...