Noten für Sinfonieorchester

Hänsel und Gretel, a Märchenspiel (Fairy-tale opera) in three acts, was written by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in 1890-1892, with a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck began to wo...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

Kuolema ("Death" in Finnish) is a play by Arvid Järnefelt. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) happened to be Järnefelt's brother-in-law, and he composed incidental music to the play under the same title (Kuole...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) schrieb dieses Werk für Soloklavier und Orchester unter dem Titel Scherzo in d-Moll 1886 ursprünglich für den Dirigenten und Pianisten Hans von Bülow, der einen großen Einf...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, Op. 8, between 1881 and 1882, and it remained his only foray in that genre. Composed while a teenager and still in school. While still...

EUGENE ONEGIN, based on a verse-novel by Alexander Pushkin, is Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) best-known opera. The story depicts the life of the titular Onegin, a Russian dandy who does not...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...

Der deutsche Komponist Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) ist heute weniger bekannt, war aber zu Lebzeiten ein beliebter und angesehener Komponist. Sein bekanntestes Werk sind die Spanischen Tänze op. 12,...

Sergej Prokofjew (1891-1953) widmete sein CONCERTO für Klavier Nr. 1 in D-Dur, op. 10, seinem Lehrer Nikolai Tscherepnin. Er komponierte es in den Jahren 1911 und 1912 und brachte es am 18. Mai 1912 i...

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...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ('A Mighty Fortress Is Our God') is among the best known hymns written by reformer Martin Luther, and has been used by many composers, including by J.S. Bach, in various...

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...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote Lyric Pieces as a collection of 66 short works for piano. Published in ten volumes, Book VIII, Op. 65, contains six pieces, which includes "Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen" (...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

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...

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...

Die ursprünglich von Debussy für Klavier zu vier Händen geschriebene PETITE SUITE wurde mehrfach transkribiert, wobei die Orchesterbearbeitung von Henri Büsser die bekannteste ist. Das Werk, das viell...

Die BAUERN-POLKA (POLKA FRANÇAISE) op. 276 von Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) enthielt als einziges Werk eine Gesangsstimme für Chor, die vom ersten Publikum schnell aufgenommen wurde. Die Uraufführung...

Die BAUERN-POLKA (POLKA FRANÇAISE) op. 276 von Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) enthielt als einziges Werk eine Gesangsstimme für Chor, die vom ersten Publikum schnell aufgenommen wurde. Die Uraufführung...

Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti), composed in the mid-1870s, is widely considered the finest song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The composer selected four poems penned by h...

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario) is a comic singspiel written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) as "a parody on the vanity of singers," who argue over status and pay. Described by Mozart as "comedy w...

LA VIE PARISIENNE: OVERTURE ON THEMES BY OFFENBACH wurde von dem in Ungarn geborenen Dirigenten und Komponisten Antal Dorati (1906-1988) zusammengestellt und arrangiert und gehört zu den reizvollsten...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ri...