Partituren für Orchester

AUX ÉTOILES (ZU DEN STERNEN), komponiert im Jahr 1874, ist ein kurzes Gedicht für Orchester des französischen Komponisten Henri Duparc (1848-1933). Er hatte es ursprünglich für ein dreisätziges Werk m...

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) composed the beautiful Serenade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 11 in 1884, before his "creative crisis" of 1890. For a small orchestra, it was premiered in 1885, his friend and m...

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63, was composed in 1911, with the premiere taking place at the London Musical Festival by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Elgar conducting, on May 2...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) begann 1877 mit der Arbeit an seiner Symphonie Nr. 4 op. 36 und beendete sie im folgenden Jahr. Die Symphonie Nr. 4 wurde kurz nach der Aufnahme der Beziehung z...

Written three years after his Manfred Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was composed in 1888. Although it has been surpassed in popularity a bit over t...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

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...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) schrieb gleich zweimal Musik zu William Shakespeares Stück EIN SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM. Die erste, die Konzertouvertüre in E-Dur op. 21, schrieb er 1826 im Alter von siebzehn J...

The Nutcracker is a two-act “fairy ballet” written by Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893). Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” the original 1892 pro...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five...

These Three Marches, K. 408 (K. 383e [No. 1], K. 385a [No. 2], K. 383f [No. 3]) were composed for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1782. Instrumentation: 2.2.0.2: 2.2.0.0: Timp: Str...

French composer Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) originally composed the ballet La tragédie de Salomé in 1907 for a commission from Jacques Rouché for American dancer Loie Fuller and the Théâtre des Arts,...

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...

Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) Ma mère l'Oye (Mutter Gans) ist von den Märchen von Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy und Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont inspiriert. Ravel komponierte den ersten Satz Pav...

Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) Ma mère l'Oye (Mutter Gans) ist von den Märchen von Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy und Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont inspiriert. Ravel komponierte den ersten Satz Pav...

Während seiner italienischen Hochzeitsreise im Jahr 1891 stieß Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) in Padua auf Tizians Gemälde Das Wunder des eifersüchtigen Gatten. Das Ergebnis war sein erstes Chorwerk, HYMNUS...

VALSES NOBLES ET SENTIMENTALES ist eines von mehreren Werken von Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), die seine Faszination für die ansteckende Einfachheit des Walzers widerspiegeln. Ausgehend von Franz Schuber...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

VESTAS FEUER für Vokalquartett und Orchester ist das einzige erhaltene Fragment einer geplanten Oper von Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), die auf ein Libretto des Dramatikers und Impresarios Emanuel...

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1dPicc).2.2+BCl..1: 4Sax(opt.): 2.3.3.1: Perc(2)...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...