Partituren für Orchester

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) composed the symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 in 1870 as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, following the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. Originally...

Der große Komponist des FREISCHÜTZ, Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), schrieb zu Beginn seiner Karriere zwei Sinfonien, die die Fähigkeit des Melodieschreibens unter Beweis stellen, die ihm auch in se...

AUFFORDERUNG ZUM TANZE (L'INVITATION A LA VALSE; INVITATION TO THE DANCE), Op. 65/ J. 260, an early example of program music by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), was originally heard in its 1819 versi...

Written in 1887 by notable leider composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Italian Serenade was originally written for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G Major. In his ongoing attempt to set the wor...

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Tosca ist eine melodramatische Oper in drei Akten, die im Juni 1800 in Rom spielt, als die Kontrolle des Königreichs Neapel über Rom durch Napoleons Invasion in Italien bedroht ist. Sie enthält Darste...

Un Ballo in Maschera (Ein Maskenball) ist eine Oper in drei Akten aus dem Jahr 1859 von Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) mit einem Libretto von Antonio Somma. Ursprünglich basierte sie auf dem Libretto von...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

Romanian composer, violinist, and conductor George Enescu (1881-1955) (Fr. Georges Enesco) wrote the two Roumanian (Romanian) Rhapsodies, Op. 11, in 1901. Much like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, both...

Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936) kehrte zur 4-sätzigen symphonischen Form zurück und vollendete 1895 seine Symphonie Nr. 5 in B-Dur, op. 55. Er brachte das Werk am 17. November des folgenden Jahres im A...

Die ursprüngliche Fassung dieses großen Werks, das 1888 fertiggestellt wurde, unterschied sich erheblich von der hier vorliegenden überarbeiteten und endgültigen Fassung. Ursprünglich aus zwei Teilen...

While less known today, German composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) was a popular and respected composer during his life. Known best for his piano compositions, his most popular work is his Spanish...

While less known today, German composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) was a popular and respected composer during his life. Known best for his piano compositions, his most popular work is his Spanish...

Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) collection of five songs titled Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice), WWV 91, is more commonly known as Wesendonck Lieder after the source o...

Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) collection of five songs titled Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice), WWV 91, is more commonly known as Wesendonck Lieder after the source o...

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...

The SAINT JOHN PASSION, BWV 245, is the oldest of the surviving J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Passions, written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig. It was premiered on April 7, 1724,...

The CANTATA No. 4: CHRIST LAG IN TODES BANDEN, BWV 4, is one of the earliest church cantatas by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Bach wrote it for an application to a job opportunity at a Lutheran church in Mul...

On the score of his cantata JAUCHZET GOTT IN ALLEN LANDEN (EXULT IN GOD IN EVERY LAND), BWV 51, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) wrote "For the 15th Sunday after Trinity and at any time", indicating that he had...

Nach der Niederlage Napoleons in seinem Feldzug von 1813 gewann der deutsche Patriotismus an Popularität. Dieser Trend hatte einen starken Einfluss auf die Dichtung und Musik der Zeit. 1814 verfasste...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Die sieben letzten Worte Christi") ist eines der beiden Oratorien von Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) und bleibt das am häufigsten aufgeführte Chorwerk des Komponisten. Das am...

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...

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...

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...