Kalmus Orchestra Library

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) wrote the original version of his Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120, in 1841. Significant revisions were made by Schumann in 1851, and it is this version that was publishe...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) wrote the original version of his Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120, in 1841. Significant revisions were made by Schumann in 1851, and it is this version that was publishe...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, conductor, and violinist, formed an acquaintance with Beethoven and, although greatly critical of his ninth symphony, promoted much of his work. His innovat...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, conductor, and violinist, formed an acquaintance with Beethoven and, although greatly critical of his ninth symphony, promoted much of his work. His innovat...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, conductor, and violinist, formed an acquaintance with Beethoven and, although greatly critical of his ninth symphony, promoted much of his work. His innovat...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, conductor, and violinist, formed an acquaintance with Beethoven and, although greatly critical of his ninth symphony, promoted much of his work. His innovat...

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...

This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra. This version of Variations on a Rococo Theme, heavily edited by Wilhelm Fitze...

Captivated by the playing of famed Franz Liszt pupil Eugen d'Albert during the 1883-1884 concert season, Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893) began work on Concert Fantasia. After an arduous compos...

SOUVENIR D'UN LIEU CHER (Erinnerung an einen geliebten Ort) ist eine Folge von drei Stücken für Violine und Klavier, die etwa zur gleichen Zeit wie Tschaikowskys Violinkonzert entstanden. Das Stück wu...

SOUVENIR D'UN LIEU CHER (Erinnerung an einen geliebten Ort) ist eine Folge von drei Stücken für Violine und Klavier, die etwa zur gleichen Zeit wie Tschaikowskys Violinkonzert entstanden. Das Stück wu...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) began work in 1877 and finished it the following year. Begun soon after Tchaikovsky established his relationship with long-time patroness Nadezhda von Mech, SYMPH...

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,...

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...

ALLEGRO APPASSIONATO IN C-SHARP MINOR, Op. 70 ist ein Werk für Klavier und Orchester von Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). Es ist die zweite Komposition des Komponisten, die so genannt wird, und entsta...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) wrote his SYMPHONY No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1, at the beginning of his role as music director for Count Karl Joseph Franz Morzin. Composed in 1757, it opens with a slow...

When Karl Traugott Queisser, trombonist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, asked Felix Mendelssohn to compose a trombone concerto for him, the composer declined due to time restraints. The task went to the...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) schrieb sein CONCERTO FÜR KLAVIER Nr. 3 in h-Moll, OP. 89 im Jahr 1819. Ähnlich wie sein zweites Klavierkonzert ist es in einem proto-romantischen Stil komponiert, de...

MANON, written by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was composed in 1883 and premiered the following year on January 19 at the Opéra-Comique. It tells the story of a young woman who, despite being a good per...

Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 63, was composed in 1911, with the premiere taking place at the London Musical Festival by the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Elgar conducting, on May 2...

French composer Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) originally composed the ballet La tragédie de Salomé in 1907 for a commission from Jacques Rouché for American dancer Loie Fuller and the Théâtre des Arts,...

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), der französische Jurist und Autodidakt, schrieb sein LARGHETTO für Horn im Jahr 1875. Das Werk, das einer Opernarie für Horn ähnelt, ist sehr lyrisch und ausdrucksstark...

The piano trio version of La muse et le poète, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...

The piano trio version of La muse et le poète, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...