Partituren für Orchester

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...

Die ursprüngliche Vertonung des "Tui sun coeli" aus Psalm 88 (Vulgata) V. 12, 15a für Chor und Keyboard wurde von Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) zwischen 1796 und 1799 vollendet. Alternative Titel sin...

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...

The MASS IN C, K. 220/196b, often referred to by the nickname "Spatzenmesse" or "Sparrow Mass" due to the violin figure in the Hosanna of the Sanctus that recalls the chirping of birds, is Mozart's 9t...

The MASS IN C, K. 220/196b, often referred to by the nickname "Spatzenmesse" or "Sparrow Mass" due to the violin figure in the Hosanna of the Sanctus that recalls the chirping of birds, is Mozart's 9t...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Mass No. 15 in C, K. 317 on March 23, 1779 after a period of seeking for employment in places such as Paris and Mannheim. Failing that, Mozart's fathe...

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...

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...

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...

Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli's (1834-1886) 4-act opera La Gioconda was first performed by La Scala in Milan on April 8, 1876, and was an immediate success, acting as a bridge between the Verdi...

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...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Die Sinfonie Nr. 3 in a-Moll von Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) entstand zwischen 1886 und 1887. Zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes blieb sie jedoch unvollendet, mit nur einer Skizze des ersten Satzes und eine...

Da er zuvor den Prix de Rome für Komposition gewonnen hatte, erhielt George Bizet (1838-1875) die Möglichkeit, seine Oper LES PECHEURS DE PERLES (DIE PERLENFISCHER) als Auftragswerk zu schreiben. Mit...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

Im Oktober 1880, als er gerade seine sechste Symphonie vollendete, schrieb Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) an seinen Verleger Fritz Simrock, dass er im nächsten Monat eine Reihe von Duetten für Klavier fer...

CHANT DU MÉNESTREL (SONG OF THE MINSTREL) ist ein kurzes Stück für Solocello und Orchester von Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936). Es wurde 1901 komponiert und ist dem Solocellisten des Zaren Alexander Wi...