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La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) started working on his German Requiem before reaching the age of 30, and by the time he was 33 he had completed it in its essentials - a work whose char...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) started working on his German Requiem before reaching the age of 30, and by the time he was 33 he had completed it in its essentials - a work whose char...

About Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias The Times said: 'Never was there a more complete triumph - never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art.' The libretto of Elijah is most skilf...

About Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias The Times said: 'Never was there a more complete triumph - never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art.' The libretto of Elijah is most skilf...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

The Messe breve no.7 'Aux Chapelles', in C major dates from the 1890's. With its purity of line and transparent polyphony, its melodic simplicity and the economy of its modulations, the Messe breve no...

Dmitri Shostakovich' opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was with more than 200 performances very succesful in as well Russia as abroad. But in 1936 Stalin attended a performance and it was imm...

Dmitri Shostakovich' opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was with more than 200 performances very succesful in as well Russia as abroad. But in 1936 Stalin attended a performance and it was imm...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the first part of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in 1722 while he was Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold at the court of Cöthen. The somewhat unusual title is based on the dis...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the first part of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in 1722 while he was Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold at the court of Cöthen. The somewhat unusual title is based on the dis...

Don Carlo (1867) composed in the middle-period of Giuseppe Verdi's musical career, - nowadays mostly played in Italian - originally was written as a French 'Grand Opera'.Giuseppe Verdi at that time wa...

Don Carlo (1867) composed in the middle-period of Giuseppe Verdi's musical career, - nowadays mostly played in Italian - originally was written as a French 'Grand Opera'.Giuseppe Verdi at that time wa...

The Prelude and Fugue from The Spitfire (1942) by William Walton had its origin in music for the film The first of the few, a tribute to R.J.Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, by Leslie Howard .The s...

The Prelude and Fugue from The Spitfire (1942) by William Walton had its origin in music for the film The first of the few, a tribute to R.J.Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, by Leslie Howard .The s...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

The famous Adagietto is the fourth part of Mahler's Symphony nr. 5 and the tempo is 'sehr Langsam'. Only strings and harp are playing and the long upbeats and expressive appogiaturas of the very slow...

The famous Adagietto is the fourth part of Mahler's Symphony nr. 5 and the tempo is 'sehr Langsam'. Only strings and harp are playing and the long upbeats and expressive appogiaturas of the very slow...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera The Tsar's Bride in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be...

The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera The Tsar's Bride in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841. (Concert Band)