Partiture per orchestra

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impressario) is a comic singspiel written by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) as "a parody on the vanity of singers," who argue over status and pay. Described by Mozart as "comedy w...

The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, is a work for solo piano written by Johannes Brahms in 1861. It consists of a set of twenty-five variations and a concluding fugue, all based on...

The text to the well-known Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem comes from an 1868 text written by Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks. It is popular in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, a...

The key to George Frideric Handel's (1685-1759) genius lies in his operas and oratorios. Handel's output of vocal compositions has established his greatness far more than the few organ concerti, sonat...

La MAURERISCHE TRAUERMUSIK (MUSICA FUNERARIA MASONICA) in do minore, K. 477/K. 479a di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) fu composta nel 1785 come membro della Massoneria. Fu eseguito durante un s...

Montage was composed by Donald O. Johnston (b. 1929) in 1989. Divided into two sections, an Introduction presents the materials that are to be developed in the Fugue that follows. Instrumentation: 2.2...

JOHANN STRAUSS II (1825-1899) initially wrote FRÜHLINGSSTIMMEN, Op. 410 (VOICES OF SPRING) as a concert aria. He dedicated the piece, with a libretto by Richard Genée, to pianist-composer Alfred Grünf...

It is widely believed that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the Adagio in E major, K. 261 in or around 1776 as a replacement for the second movement of his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219....

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) iniziò a lavorare a una Sinfonia in mi bemolle dopo il completamento della sua quinta. Con l'intenzione di far diventare gli abbozzi la sua sesta sinfonia, il com...

This orchestration for 11 wind instruments of three (Starodávný I, Dymák, and Starodávný II) of the six Lachian Dances (Lašské Tance) by Czech composer Leoš Janácek (1854-1928) has been completed by G...

Ramuntcho è un romanzo del 1897 di Pierre Loti per il quale Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) compose le musiche di scena per una versione del 1908. Dalla musica di scena di ispirazione basca, Pierné ricavò...

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) scrisse la suite IN A NUTSHELL nel 1916, originariamente per grande orchestra, anche se nello stesso anno ne seguì una versione per pianoforte solo e una per due pianoforti....

This is the fifth among thirteen string symphonies written between 1821 and 1823, when Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was twelve to fourteen years old. Like the other twelve, it was written as a tribut...

At the precocious age of fourteen, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scribbled out his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major. He wrote a second, this time longer, double piano concerto the foll...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (STATE ZITTI, VENTI) è un mottetto latino di George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) L'incertezza sulla data di composizione ha suscitato molti dibattiti, anche se un attento studio d...

La canzone TI GUARDERÓ NEL CUORE del 1962, conosciuta a livello internazionale con il titolo MORE, è stata scritta da Riz Ortolani e Nino Oliviero per il film documentario italiano MONDO CANE. Vincito...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...

César Franck (1822-1890) wrote his Mass in A Major, Op. 12 in the summer of 1860. It was later revised in 1872, with the then newly composed Panis angelicus replacing the original movement O salutaris...

Written in 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770 — 1827) O welch ein Leben! Ein ganzes Meer for tenor and ensemble is a setting of the libretto from Austrian composer Ignaz Umlauf's 1778 singspiel...

Written in 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Soll ein Schuh nicht drücken! for soprano and ensemble is a setting of the libretto from Austrian composer Ignaz Umlauf's 1778 singspeil Die schöne...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) iniziò a lavorare al suo POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEMA DELL'AMORE E DEL MARE), OP. 19, nel 1882. Il compositore scelse come materiale di partenza due poesie scritte...

Terminata nel 1848 e rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1950 a Weimar, in Germania, LOHENGRIN di Richard Wagner (1813-1883) racconta una tragica storia d'amore medievale tedesca nella tradizione del...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

The music for The Magic Toy Shop, a one act ballet about a love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toy shop, is based on piano pieces that were a part of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse. Respi...