Klassische Musik der Romantik Noten für Orchester

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...

Im Jahr 1775 schrieb Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) seine fünf Violinkonzerte für Gaetano Brunetti, einen Geiger am Salzburger Hof, wo er als Konzertmeister tätig war. In einem Brief an seinen Va...

1888 vollendete Erik Satie (1866-1925) seine TROIS GYMNOPÉDIES, drei beschwingte, traumartige Übungen für Klavier solo. Sie wurden separat veröffentlicht, die zweite erschien zuletzt 1895. Als er in d...

Kuolema ("Death" in Finnish) is a play by Arvid Järnefelt. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) happened to be Järnefelt's brother-in-law, and he composed incidental music to the play under the same title (Kuole...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thamos, König von Ägypten, K. 345/336a wurde zwischen 1773 und 1779 von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) als Bühnenmusik für ein Theaterstück von Tobias Philipp von Gebler komponiert, das im Geiste...

Erstmals 1954 veröffentlicht und aufgenommen (damals nur auf dem Album "A Leroy Anderson 'Pops' Concert" enthalten), wurde dieses schöne Klavierinstrumental 1957 als britische Single veröffentlicht un...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) four-act opera-ballet Mlada was originally conceived as a collaborative project with music provided by five composers: César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsk...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Die ursprünglich von Debussy für Klavier zu vier Händen geschriebene PETITE SUITE wurde mehrfach transkribiert, wobei die Orchesterbearbeitung von Henri Büsser die bekannteste ist. Das Werk, das viell...

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario) is a comic singspiel written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) as "a parody on the vanity of singers," who argue over status and pay. Described by Mozart as "comedy w...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (SEI STILL, WINDE) ist eine lateinische Motette von Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Das ungewisse Entstehungsdatum hat viele Debatten ausgelöst, obwohl eine sorgfältige Unters...

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...

Written as a tribute to the soft-shoe style of dancing common in vaudeville acts of the early 20th century, Leroy Anderson’s "Sandpaper Ballet" was not intended to be an actual ballet, though it certa...

Igor Strawinsky's ballet Pulcinella was written for Les Ballets Russes after the great triumph of The Firebird and the great scandal of The Rite of Spring, but it marked a new compositional direction....

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera, The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the sum...