Mittelschwere Klassik-Noten

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The famous polka Donner und Blitz is till today often used as interval...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Geronimo Gimeniz is a Sevillan composer of many Zarzuela's. The short temperamental aria Zapatuedo is fro...

Trumpet and Concert Band. Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

Absolutely the most famous "Canzone Napoletana" is "O Sole Mio" composed by the Italian singer and songwriter Eduardo di Capua (1865-1917) in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro. Though...

Die Zauberflöte" isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indiv...

Saint-Saëns also contributed voluminously to the French concertante literature. He wrote five piano concertos, three violin concertos, two cello concertos, and about twenty smaller concertante works f...

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752 -1790) was a German oboist and composer. He started playing with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim at the age of 12 and became a full...

Children's Corner ist eine sechssätzige Suite für Klavier solo von Claude Debussy, die 1908 veröffentlicht und später von Debussys Freund André Caplet orchestriert wurde. Das sechste und letzte Stück...

'Der Zigeunerbaron' is Strauss's second most popular operetta after 'Die Fledermaus'. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to...

Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) was a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music. He first coupled a career as a music critic with more conventionally serious composition, before,...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high a...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high a...

Hans Christian Lumbye - auch bekannt als'Strauß des Nordens' - komponierte 1845 den 'Champagne Galop' zum zweiten Jahrestag des Kopenhagener Vergnügungsparks Tivoli. Es ist ein Paradebeispiel der Unte...

Italian composer Luigi Denza (1846-1922) is best remembered for 'Funiculì, Funiculà' (1880), a humorous Neapolitan song inspired by the inauguration of a funicular at the summit of the 'Vesuvius'. Bes...

Hans Christian Lumbye ist vor allem für seine Lichtkompositionen bekannt, von denen viele auf nicht-musikalische Quellen zurückgehen. Der "Champagner-Galopp" (BTM681) beispielsweise beginnt mit dem "K...

The 'Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major' by Antonio Vivaldi is one of the few solo works of the early 1700's to feature brass instruments and is among Vivaldi's best-known creations. As with the gre...

In 1868 Johann Strauss jr. composed the polka 'Freikugeln' (Free-Shooter), opus 326 which commemorated the '3rd German Federal Shooting Contest', which attracted no less than ten thousand entrants fro...

Carl Millöcker (1842-1899), was an Austrian composer mainly known for his operetta Der Bettelstudent. In 1884 Millocker composed the opereatta Gasparone. on a libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Ge...

The 'Mass in b minor' (BWV 232) by Johann Sebastian Bach is a musical setting of the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass. The work was one of Bach's last compositions, not completed until 1749, the ye...

In 1876 Tschaikowsky composed his ballet 'Swan Lake' Op. 20. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. 'Swan Lake' was premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet on 4 March 1...

Paul Dukas (1865-1935) wrote his 'Villanelle' as a demanding exam piece for the horn class of the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. The title, referencing a cheerful traditional vocal genre that originated...

Pascual Marquina Narro (1873 - 1948) was a prolific Spanish orchestral and operatic composer. As a composer he is particularly known for his pasodoble works. Among these belong the 'Rey del Pasodoble'...

The music for Johann Strauss' Operetta 'Der Zigeunerbaron' is regularly performed today. The orchestral pieces that Strauss furnished from the work were also well-recognised, among them, the sparkling...