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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...

This is the second of six Masses composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), also referred to frequently as the "Mass in G," and it remains the best known of the three shorter settings titled "Mass." Comp...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alexander Borodin's (1833-1887) Symphony No. 3 in A minor was written between 1886 and 1887. However, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, with only a sketch of the first movement and a co...

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...

Wahrscheinlich in den ersten Monaten des Jahres 1877 komponiert, nimmt das VALSE SCHERZO, OP. 34, nimmt im Schaffen von Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) einen wichtigen Platz ein, da es ihn auf...