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La "Danse des Sauvages" (Danza dei Selvaggi) è un estratto dell'opera di balletto "Les Indes Galantes" (Le Indie Cortesi). Rameau è stato uno dei più importanti compositori francesi (1683 - 1764). Scr...

In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in 1901 and dedicated it to the composer Granville Bantock. Although this second march is less known than the first, it is not less beautif...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...

Towards A New Life (Josef Suk) was written in 1919 as a patriotic march, dedicated to the young Czechoslovakian army. In the same year he submitted this work to a composition competition where this ma...

In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect...

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote two series of eight Slavonic dances. The first series, composed in 1878, was so successful that the editor asked the composer to write a second series. It was not befo...

The Capriol Suite is a set of dances in the renaissance style. It was based on tunes found in a manual of Renaissance dances by the French priest Jehan Tabourot. The treatment of the source material i...

Berlioz wrote the Hungarian March in 1846, which he later in the year included in his large work, The Damnation of Faust. The march was written on the advice of those Berlioz had told how the Hungaria...

The British composer Edward Elgar, aside from writing his famous Pomp and Circumstance marches, also wrote two symphonies. This piece is the opening theme of his first symphony. A beautiful late roman...

Now the masterful music of the most influential composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is also available for your student orchestra. This arrangement includes highlights from the classics 'The...

After the success of André Rieu's Strauss & Co, Patrick Milstone has followed up with Strauss Party.This potpourii of light music classics includes the highlights of The Radetzki March (Johan Strauss)...

Britannica is inspired by Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches. A playful, varied introduction leads to the majestic main theme, recalling the heyday of the British Empire. It is played initia...

L'Almanach aux Images was composed in 1911, originally consisting of eight piano miniatureseach preceded by a poem. It is perhaps the best-known work of French pianist, composer and conductor, Gabriel...

Suite 'Aus dem Lustgarten'

Manuel de Falla is considered one of the biggest Spanish composers. He was very interested in native Spanish folk music, whose influence is rather noticeable in this piece. The Three Cornered Hat, whi...

The Voyevoda from Tchaikovsky is based on the play A Dream on the Volga which was premiered on February 11, 1869. In the 1870s Tchaikovsky destroyed the manuscript full score of the opera, while recyc...

Camille Saint-Saëns scrisse la sua Terza Sinfonia quando era all'apice delle sue capacità artistiche. Nello stesso periodo scrisse anche il Terzo Concerto per violino, la Danse Macabre e il famosissim...

La Marcia funebre di una marionetta fu composta nel 1872 come parte della Suite Burlesque per pianoforte di Charles Gonoud. Questa suite era intesa come una parodia del critico musicale Henry Chorley....

Debussy's Preludes for Piano is a masterpiece of impressionist music. The arranger wanted to translate this colourful universe into the symphonic concert band scope. He explores the wide palette of re...

Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) è stato un compositore russo, educatore musicale e direttore d'orchestra che ha insegnato al Conservatorio di San Pietroburgo, tra gli altri, a Stravinsky e Prokofiev. Le t...

The composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is regarded as Norway's the most important composer and for a large part can be regarded as a miniaturist. He has written famous works such as the Piano Concerto...

Benvenuto Cellini was the first opera from the French composer Hector Berlioz. After reading the memoires of the 16th century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz had a strong feeling of connection and...

The andante in C major K 315 (K6 285e) was commissioned to Mozart from a rich Dutchman called Ferdinand De Jean. The piece has a simple solo writing and a linear symphonic part. The flute solo can eas...

In 1888 a poor music teacher got engaged to a writer, eight years older than him. Caroline Alice Roberts dedicated her poem The Wind At Dawn to her beloved Edward Elgar. And he composed his Liebesgruß...