Kalmus Orchestra Library

The GOLD AND SILVER WALTZES, Op. 79, was written by Franz Lehár (1870-1948) at the request of Princess Metternich to compose "something especially fine" for her "Gold und Silber" gala ball, commission...

Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet a...

This is the beautiful slow movement from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. This abridged version adds two alternate orchestrations to the original and is suitable for better orchestras everywhere. Inst...

Ursprünglich von Debussy für Klavier zu vier Händen geschrieben, wurde die PETITE SUITE mehrfach transkribiert, wobei diese Orchesterfassung von Henri Büsser die bekannteste ist. Vielleicht aufgrund e...

Habanera, composed for piano in October 1885, explores a folk tune that Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) collected on his five-month trip to Spain. The habanera derives its name from Havana, Cuba, charac...

Czech composer and folklorist Leos Janácek's (1854-1928) IDYLL for string orchestra is his second surviving large-scale instrumental work, written by the then 24-year-old composer in the summer 1878 a...

Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892) war ein Kollege und guter Freund Bizets. Nach Bizets Tod komponierte er die noch heute in Carmen verwendeten Rezitative. Zwischen 1880 und 1882 stellte er aus dieser Oper zw...

Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) was written betweem 1876 and 1880 and is the final work composed by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), who died four months before the premiere, a fear that O...

LOHENGRIN, first performed in 1850, is a Romantic opera in three acts, written by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Based on the legendary 13th century romance of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, who...

Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892) war ein Kollege und guter Freund Bizets. Nach Bizets Tod komponierte er die noch heute in Carmen verwendeten Rezitative. Zwischen 1880 und 1882 stellte er für Choudens, Bize...

This is the beautiful slow movement from Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA in the original edition and orchestration, including two harps and organ. Instrumentation: 1+Picc.2.2.0: 0.0.0.0: Hp(2): Org: S...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Das Ballett El Amor Brujo (Die verhexte Liebe) wurde 1915 von Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) komponiert und bis 1920 immer wieder überarbeitet, so dass mehrere Versionen entstanden. In dem Ballett, das a...

Musetta's Waltz ist ein recht gewagtes Lied, das Musetta in Puccinis Oper La Bohème singt, um die Aufmerksamkeit eines früheren Liebhabers zu erregen. Diese neu verfügbare Konzertadaption verwendet ke...

George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) loved to read, a fact well-represented by his Don Quixote Suite: Ouverture in G No. 10, TWV 55:G10 (Burlesque de Quichotte) for strings. Introducing his subject wit...

Originally written as a suite for piano four-hands in 1871, Georges Bizet (1838-1875) orchestrated five of the twelve movements of Jeux d'Enfants in 1880. A precursor to other childhood-themed works b...

Die 1880 geschriebene und am 22. Februar 1881 von der Liverpool Philharmonic Society unter der Leitung des Komponisten mit Joseph Joachim an der Solovioline uraufgeführte SCHOTTISCHE FANTASIE op. 46 i...

Habanera, composed for piano in October 1885, explores a folk tune that Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) collected on his five-month trip to Spain. The habanera derives its name from Havana, Cuba, charac...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) komponierte das Andante Spianto und die Grande Polonaise Brillante in Es-Dur, Op. 22, zwischen 1830 und 1834. Die Polonaise, ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponiert und sp...

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...

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) 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...