Partiture per orchestra

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...

Questo "Medley of Well-Known Carols" fa parte della serie natalizia di Arthur Harris. Canti inclusi: 1. Buon Re Venceslao, 2. Silent Night, 3. Joy to the World, 4. First Noel, 5. Deck the Halls, 6. Wh...

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...

Probabilmente scritta da Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) nel 1763, la Sinfonia n. 16 in si bemolle (Hob. I:16) fu tra le prime sinfonie scritte quando Haydn era alle dipendenze della famiglia Esterházy. In t...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) scrisse l'opera in 3 atti MAZEPPA tra il 1881 e il 1883. Su libretto di Victor Burenin, basato sul poema Poltava di Pushkin, l'opera prende le figure storiche ucr...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) scrisse il breve brano orchestrale intitolato Sevillaña (Scène Espagnole), Op. 7 nel 1884, quando il compositore aveva ventisei anni. Il 1884 fu un periodo di difficoltà perso...

AIDA, with music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, is a staple of the operatic repertoire. The story, set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, tells of tragic love challenge...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote Lyric Pieces as a collection of 66 short works for piano. Published in ten volumes, Book VIII, Op. 65, contains six pieces, which includes "Bryllupsdag på Troldhaugen" (...

Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) wrote L'amico Fritz in 1891 only one year after his masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana began the Versimo movement. A charming light opera in three acts, L'am...

NABUCCO, a retelling of the biblical story of Jewish exile under the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) first major operatic success, and was written reluctantly, followi...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

While Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) modestly refers to Hear My Prayer (Hör' mein Bitten) in G Major, WoO 15, as "a trifle," it is among his most popular works for chorus. On the autograph score, he in...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

La Sinfonia n. 1 in la bemolle, op. 55, di Edward Elgar (1857-1934) fu completata nel 1908, anche se si trattava di un'opera in fase di elaborazione da circa un decennio. Originariamente proposta già...

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...