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The oratorio "Mors et Vita" (Death and Life) is the continuation of "The Redemption" and was the second of a proposed trilogy of oratorios written on commission by Charles Gounod for the Birmingham Fe...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his "Fantasia on Serbian Themes" (also known as the "Serbian Fantasy") in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performance of this piece in May of that year. The "Fantasy" wa...

Die Afrikanerin ist eine Wiener Quadrille, die Johann Strauss auf Themen aus Meyerbeers Oper "L'Africaine" basiert. Sie wurde erstmals am 7. Juli 1865 im Wiener Volksgarten im Rahmen eines musikalisch...

Die Afrikanerin ist eine Wiener Quadrille, die Johann Strauss auf Themen aus Meyerbeers Oper "L'Africaine" basiert. Sie wurde erstmals am 7. Juli 1865 im Wiener Volksgarten im Rahmen eines musikalisch...

Pablo de Sarasates "Zigeunerweisen" für Violine und Orchester wurde 1878 geschrieben und noch im selben Jahr in Leipzig uraufgeführt. Es basiert auf Themen des Volkes der Roma, insbesondere auf den Rh...

Pablo de Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" (Gypsy Airs) for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1878 and premiered during the same year in Leipzig. It is based on themes of the Roma people, specifically the...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

Verdi komponierte "Un Ballo in Maschera" für das Theater San Carlo in Neapel, wo es während der Karnevalssaison 1858 aufgeführt werden sollte. Das Libretto erzählte die wahre Geschichte des liberalen...

The "Stabat Mater" is the best known work of Giovanni Pergolesi's. It was commissioned by the "Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo" who presented an annual Good Friday meditation in ho...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) ist eine frühe Oper von Richard Wagner in fünf Akten, deren Libretto der Komponist nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Bulwer-Lytton (1835) schrieb. Die Oper spie...

Ollantay ist eine der letzten Partituren aus der nationalistischen Periode des argentinischen Komponisten Alberto Ginastera. Das Bildmaterial für die Musik stammt aus dem "Popol Vuh", dem Buch des Rat...

Ollantay is one of the last scores of his nationalistic period of the Argentin composer Alverto Ginastera. The imagery for the music comes from the "Popol Vuh", or Council Book, an assemblage of Mayan...

Classical composers who have used csardas themes in their works include Emmerich Kalman, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Leo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and othe...

Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and othe...

Although Arturo Marquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzones in the early 1990s. This vene...

Although Arturo Márquez was already an accomplished composer in Mexico, his music started to reach the international stage with the introduction of his series of Danzónes in the early 1990s. This vene...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based pon the Grim...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm...