Edwin F. Kalmus

The CANTATA No. 4: CHRIST LAG IN TODES BANDEN, BWV 4, is one of the earliest church cantatas by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Bach wrote it for an application to a job opportunity at a Lutheran church in Mul...

The CANTATA No. 4: CHRIST LAG IN TODES BANDEN, BWV 4, is one of the earliest church cantatas by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Bach wrote it for an application to a job opportunity at a Lutheran church in Mul...

On the score of his cantata JAUCHZET GOTT IN ALLEN LANDEN (EXULT IN GOD IN EVERY LAND), BWV 51, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) wrote "For the 15th Sunday after Trinity and at any time", indicating that he had...

On the score of his cantata JAUCHZET GOTT IN ALLEN LANDEN (EXULT IN GOD IN EVERY LAND), BWV 51, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) wrote "For the 15th Sunday after Trinity and at any time", indicating that he had...

On the score of his cantata JAUCHZET GOTT IN ALLEN LANDEN (EXULT IN GOD IN EVERY LAND), BWV 51, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) wrote "For the 15th Sunday after Trinity and at any time", indicating that he had...

Dopo la sconfitta di Napoleone durante la campagna del 1813, il patriottismo tedesco ebbe un'impennata di popolarità. Questa tendenza influenzò pesantemente la poesia e la musica dell'epoca. Nel 1814,...

Dopo la sconfitta di Napoleone durante la campagna del 1813, il patriottismo tedesco ebbe un'impennata di popolarità. Questa tendenza influenzò pesantemente la poesia e la musica dell'epoca. Nel 1814,...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

The song cycle LES NUITS D'ETE (SUMMER NIGHTS) is a setting of six poems by composer Hector Berlioz' (1803-1869) neighbor and friend, Théophile Gautier. The text deals in themes of love in all its fac...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Le sette ultime parole di Cristo") è uno dei due oratori di Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) e rimane l'opera corale più frequentemente eseguita del compositore. Eseguita per l...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Le sette ultime parole di Cristo") è uno dei due oratori di Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) e rimane l'opera corale più frequentemente eseguita del compositore. Eseguita per l...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("Le sette ultime parole di Cristo") è uno dei due oratori di Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) e rimane l'opera corale più frequentemente eseguita del compositore. Eseguita per l...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...

When the American, music-loving philanthropist, Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, convinced the world-renowned Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) to be the new director of her National Conservatory of Mu...

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

Questa edizione dell'opera più famosa di George Frideric Handel è stata curata da Ebenezer Prout e include accompagnamenti aggiuntivi in gran parte riscritti da lui stesso. La prefazione di Prout offr...

Questa edizione dell'opera più famosa di George Frideric Handel è stata curata da Ebenezer Prout e include accompagnamenti aggiuntivi in gran parte riscritti da lui stesso. La prefazione di Prout offr...

Questa edizione dell'opera più famosa di George Frideric Handel è stata curata da Ebenezer Prout e include accompagnamenti aggiuntivi in gran parte riscritti da lui stesso. La prefazione di Prout offr...

EIN' FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT ("Una potente fortezza è il nostro Dio") è uno degli inni più noti scritti dal riformatore Martin Lutero ed è stato utilizzato da molti compositori, tra cui J.S. Bach, i...

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...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed the three-act oratorio Hercules, HWV 60 during a four-week period in 1744. Telling the story of the ancient Greek hero Hercules' death through the jealousy...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed the three-act oratorio Hercules, HWV 60 during a four-week period in 1744. Telling the story of the ancient Greek hero Hercules' death through the jealousy...

During the semi-retirement from his long service as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was tasked with composing a Coronation Mass for the wife of his patron, Prince...

During the semi-retirement from his long service as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was tasked with composing a Coronation Mass for the wife of his patron, Prince...