Partiture per orchestra

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Don Pasquale, regarded as one of the crowning gems of comic opera, had its first performance on January 3, 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) co...

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) wrote the four-act verismo opera Andrea Chénier in 1896, and it remains his best-known work. It premiered on March 28, 1896, at La Scala in Milan. Loosely based on the lif...

WERTHER, an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842-1912), found its inspiration in a novel by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which in turn based its story on the actual suicide of a young m...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scrisse musica per il dramma di William Shakespeare SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE in due diverse occasioni. La prima volta scrisse l'ouverture da concerto in mi magg...

A dream inspired Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) to compose The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Kahn, based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The composer originally wrote it for piano in 1912. Fou...

LA BOHÈME, una delle opere più amate e di maggior successo commerciale, è basata sul romanzo del 1851 Scene di vita boema di Henri Murger. Su libretto di Luigi Illica e Giuseppe Giacosa, Giacomo Pucci...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Alexander Borodin's (1833-1887) Symphony No. 3 in A minor was written between 1886 and 1887. However, it remained unfinished at the time of his death, with only a sketch of the first movement and a co...

Composto probabilmente nei primi mesi del 1877, il VALSE SCHERZO, OP. 34, occupa una posizione importante nell'opera di Pietro Il'ič Čajkovskij (1840-1893), poiché lo preparò a iniziare il lavoro sul...

Avendo già vinto il Prix de Rome per la composizione, George Bizet (1838-1875) ebbe l'opportunità di scrivere su commissione l'opera LES PECHEURS DE PERLES (I pescatori di perle). Con un libretto scri...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote Four Lieder (Four Songs), Op. 27 for voice and piano originally in 1894, and they are among his greatest songs, when taken as a set. While the text came from a trio o...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

Nell'ottobre del 1880, mentre stava completando la sua sesta sinfonia, Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) scrisse al suo editore Fritz Simrock di voler completare un ciclo di duetti per pianoforte nel mese su...

Symphony No. 16 in C Major, K. 128 was composed when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was 16 years old. It was the first of three written in May 1772 while he stayed in Salzburg. The first movement...

Scritta tra il 1879 e il 1881, la Sinfonia n. 6 di Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) fu considerata dal compositore la sua "sinfonia più audace", anche se molti critici dell'epoca non sarebbero stati d'accor...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) completò la sua prima opera pubblicata per orchestra, RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE, tra il 1907 e il 1908, dedicandola al violinista belga Charles de Bériot. L'Orchestre des Concerts C...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, Hungarian Dances (WoO 1), a set of 21 lively dance tunes mostly based on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' (1833-1897) most popular works to...

LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (I Racconti di HOFFMANN) fu scritta tra il 1876 e il 1880 ed è l'ultima opera composta da Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), che morì quattro mesi prima della prima, un timore che Of...

The creation of the opera Il Trovatore by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was complicated by a variety of circumstances. The original play by Garcia Gutierrez needed simplifying, and the traditional notion...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Scritta originariamente nel 1899 da Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) per pianoforte solo e successivamente orchestrata dal compositore, PAVANE POUR UNE INFANTE DÉFUNTE (PAVANE PER UNA PRINCIPESSA MORTA) rima...

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...