Partituren für Orchester

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...

When the American, music-loving philanthropist, Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, convinced the world-renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) to be the new director of her National Conservatory of Mu...

Diese Ausgabe von Georg Friedrich Händels berühmtestem Werk wurde von Ebenezer Prout herausgegeben und enthält zusätzliche, größtenteils von ihm neu geschriebene Begleitsätze. Das Vorwort von Prout bi...

Diese Ausgabe von Georg Friedrich Händels berühmtestem Werk wurde von Ebenezer Prout herausgegeben und enthält zusätzliche, größtenteils von ihm neu geschriebene Begleitsätze. Das Vorwort von Prout bi...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ("Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott") gehört zu den bekanntesten Kirchenliedern des Reformators Martin Luther und wurde von vielen Komponisten, darunter auch von J.S. Bach,...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed the three-act oratorio Hercules, HWV 60 during a four-week period in 1744. Telling the story of the ancient Greek hero Hercules' death through the jealousy...

During the semi-retirement from his long service as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was tasked with composing a Coronation Mass for the wife of his patron, Prince...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed the sacred choral work Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), K. 47 in 1768, at the age of 12. As Mozart added the subtitle "Offertorium," it is clear t...

The sublime Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in June of 1791 for his friend Anton Stoll, and it premiered on June 23 of that year at St. Stephen's church in...

Regina Caeli in C Major, K. 276 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was written ca. 1779 during the composer's time at the Salzburg Cathedral. The third of three settings of the Marian antiphon Reg...

VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE (Feierliche Vesper für einen Bekenner), das letzte Werk, das Mozart für den Salzburger Dom komponierte, trug ursprünglich nicht den Titel "de confessore", der später vo...

This arrangement for orchestra for Three Songs (Drei Lieder) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) has been completed by Willy Weide (1880-1910). Songs included: 1. Liebestreu (True Love), Op. 3, No. 1; 2. W...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) began composition of his Great Mass in C minor, K. 427/417a in 1782 as a promise to himself to write a major work for his native Salzburg. This period was shortly a...

This wonderful, short choral masterpiece has a confusing heritage.  Spuriously attributed in 1910 to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the six-movement MAGNIFICAT was actually composed by...

Dieses wunderbare, kurze Meisterwerk für Chöre hat ein verwirrendes Erbe. Das sechssätzige MAGNIFICAT, das 1910 fälschlicherweise Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) zugeschrieben wurde, wurde tat...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote his Oratorio de Noël in a matter of weeks, completing the work ten days before it premiered on Christmas in 1858 in Paris. Written and structured in a style that...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Don Pasquale, regarded as one of the crowning gems of comic opera, had its first performance on January 3, 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) co...

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...

WERTHER, an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), found its inspiration in a novel by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which in turn based its story on the actual suicide of a young m...

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...

A dream inspired Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) to compose The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn, based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The composer originally wrote it for piano in 1912. Fou...

LA BOHÈME (The Bohemian), one of the most beloved and commercially-successful operas, is based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger. With a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G...

LA BOHÈME, eine der beliebtesten und kommerziell erfolgreichsten Opern, basiert auf dem Roman Szenen aus dem böhmischen Leben von Henri Murger aus dem Jahr 1851. Mit einem Libretto von Luigi Illica un...