Baton Music

'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...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

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...

Il Danzon n. 2 del compositore messicano Arturo Marquez è stato incluso nel programma dell'Orchestra Giovanile Simon Bolivar del Venuzuela, diretta da Gustavo Dudamel, durante la tournée del 2007 in E...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) fu una figura centrale della grande opera francese antica, noto per la sua elegante scrittura melodica e lo stile orchestrale chiaro e teatrale. 'La Muette de...

The Wasps' is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy 'The Wasps' for a production at Trinity College, Camb...

Anton Bruckner compose i suoi "Kleine Orchesterstücke" nel 1862 come primo tentativo in quel campo che in seguito avrebbe fatto suo: la musica orchestrale. Questi quattro pezzi sono piccoli e melodios...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The Csardas, sung by Rosalinde demands great virtuosity and gypsy fee...

The Gypsy Chorus (Coro di Zingari) 'Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie' is the opening of the second act of he opera Il Trovatore. It is dawn at a gypsy encampment in Biscay, the gypsies prepare for the...

Although Franz Lehár became most known for his contribution to the operetta repertoire, he also composed a lot of marches. One of these is 'Piave induló' (Piave Marsch, Marche form the 106th Regiment)...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The Toy Symphony, (Kinder-Sinfonie) was also published as Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis because it was written for instruments that were manufactured in the toy industry of Berchtensgaden that flourished...

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 wine merc...

Ecce sacerdos magnus (Ecco un grande sacerdote), WAB 13, è un mottetto sacro del 1885 del compositore austriaco Anton Bruckner. Si tratta di un'ambientazione musicale dell'omonima antifona. L'opera è...

As a composer, Johann Strauss Sr. is probably less well known than his son Johann Strauss Jr., but his 'Radeztky March' is still one of the most popular pieces in classical music. Besides this march h...

In 1869 Johann Strauss composed the polka francaise 'Im Krapfenwald'l' ('In Krapfen's Woods'). It was originally titled 'Im Pawlowsk Walde' when first performed in Pavlovsk (Russia). Reportedly, sever...

L'opera più nota di Kurt Weill (1900-1950) è "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") (1928), una rielaborazione de "L'opera del mendicante" di John Gay, scritta in collaborazione con Bertolt Brech...

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792) was a German-Czech composer and a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies...

The Cavatina 'Quel guarda il cavaliere' is sung in the first act of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale by the young Norina .She comments on a novel she is reading, but also dwells on her skills as a charm...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppe and Karl Millöcker were t...

Il compositore spagnolo Pedro Iturralde (*1929) deve essere considerato sia il pioniere che il capostipite della musica jazz spagnola. Pequena Czarda (piccola danza) è un piccolo pezzo virtuoso per sa...

Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the 'Miserere' which is placed in the fourth and final act. A chorus of monks begins chanting a...

Johannes Brahms composed the Alt-Rhapsodie in September of 1869 as a wedding gift to the daughter of his close friend and confidant, Clara Schumann. The Alt-Rhapsodie is set to several verses of a poe...

Chaminade's Concertino for Flute in D major, Op. 107 was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was later arranged for flute and piano. Scholarship indicates that the Concertino was commissioned...