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'Cantique de Noël' ('O Holy Night') is a Christmas carol composed by French composer Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the poem 'Minuit, Chrétiens' ('Midnight, Christians') by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a win...

Classical composers who have used csárdás themes in their works include Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Johann Strauss, Pablo de Sarasate, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and othe...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

I "Vesperae solennes de Confessore", KV 339, sono un'opera sacra composta nel 1780 da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fu composta per l'uso liturgico nella cattedrale di Salisburgo. Il "Laudate Dominum" è il...

I "Vesperae solennes de Confessore", KV 339, sono un'opera sacra composta nel 1780 da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fu composta per l'uso liturgico nella cattedrale di Salisburgo. Il "Laudate Dominum" è il...

Besides opera's Donizetti composed music for wind ensemble and some solopieces for wind instruments. For Oboe and Pianoforte Donizetti composed a Sonata which he dedicated to his friend Severino degl'...

Besides opera's Donizetti composed music for wind ensemble and some solopieces for wind instruments. For Oboe and Pianoforte Donizetti composed a Sonata which he dedicated to his friend Severino degl'...

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time was not very successful in writing music for the stage. He had no difficulty in writing a purely abstract overture, but once beyond this...

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time was not very successful in writing music for the stage. He had no difficulty in writing a purely abstract overture, but once beyond this...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

In this transcription Marco Tamanini has combined two martial sections of the opera into a march-fantasy in the great Italian tradition. (Concert Band)

In this transcription Marco Tamanini has combined two martial sections of the opera into a march-fantasy in the great Italian tradition. (Concert Band)

L'opera "Macbeth" di Giuseppe fu rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1847 ed è basata sull'omonimo dramma di William Shakespeare. La storia si svolge in Scozia a metà dell'XI secolo. Nel primo atto,...

L'opera "Macbeth" di Giuseppe fu rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1847 ed è basata sull'omonimo dramma di William Shakespeare. La storia si svolge in Scozia a metà dell'XI secolo. Nel primo atto,...

In 1884 Edvard Grieg composed the 'Holberg Suite', subtitled 'Suite in olden style'. It's a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

In 1884 Edvard Grieg composed the 'Holberg Suite', subtitled 'Suite in olden style'. It's a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

The Ballet Gayaneh was composed by Aram Khachaturian in 1940 for the Direction of Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre of Leningrad.In this ballet there is the Sabre Dance about which the same Aram Khachatu...

In 1884 Edvard Grieg composed the ‘Holberg Suite’, subtitled ‘Suite in olden style’. It’s a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

In 1884 Edvard Grieg composed the ‘Holberg Suite’, subtitled ‘Suite in olden style’. It’s a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

On 15 March 1811 Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) arrived in Munich looking for work.He must have begun his Clarinet Concertino almost at once: it was written for Heinrich Bärmann, the clarinettist of...