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Questa edizione dell'opera più famosa di George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) fu adattata per le rappresentazioni a Vienna da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Suggerito da Gottfried van Swieten, il...

George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) was contracted to write Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 in 1749 by George II of Great Britain to be performed in London's Green Park on April 27 of that year...

The three-act opera Rodrigo, HWV 5, was composed in 1707 and was George Frideric Handel's (1685-1759) first opera in the Italian style. Telling the tale of the historical Rodrigo, the last Visigothic...

Il compositore oraziano Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) compose la sua MARCIA D'INGRESSO DEI BOIARI nel 1893, e rimane la sua opera più popolare. In seguito all'offerta di un posto al Conservatorio di Buc...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) wrote Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor 'Farewell' (Hob. I.45; 'Abschiedssinfonie' in German), the most well-known of his 'Sturm und Drang' symphonies, in 1772, and it is...

Symphony No. 44 was completed in 1772 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Rumored that the composer requested the third movement be played at his funeral, the work is popularly known as "Trauersinfonie...

Tradizionalmente attribuita a Franz Joseph Haydn, la TOY SYMPHONY, Hob.II: 47, è nota per il suo stravagante assortimento di strumenti giocattolo. La paternità è stata a lungo contestata e i musicolog...

The three-act opéra comique Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre (Zampa, or the Marble Bride) was written in 1831, and is one of Ferdinand Hérold's (1791-1833) most popular works during the 19th century. It...

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, un Märchenspiel (opera fiabesca) in tre atti, fu scritto da Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) nel 1890-1892, su libretto della sorella Adelheid Wette. Humperdinck iniziò a lavorare...

French composer Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote Le roi d'Ys, an opera in three acts and five tableaux, between 1875 and 1888. He was prompted by his wife, contralto Julie de Maligny, to use the Breton...

Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote Concerto for Cello in D minor a few years after the popular Symphonie espagnole in 1876 for Belgian cellist Adolphe Fischer. The following year, Fischer was the soloist...

Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914), one of the Russian Five, wrestled with doubt in his own creative talent. Exclusively writing small-scale works, he explored the folk music of his native country, much of wh...

Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) compose KIKIMORA, Op. 63 nel 1909. Basata su questa figura familiare della mitologia slava, la partitura contiene la seguente descrizione tratta dai racconti popolari russi...

Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) began to develop the concept of the symphonic poem (symphonische dichtung; poème symphonique) following his 1847 retirement from concert...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his stud...

L'idea di TOTENTANZ, S. 126 (Danza dei morti) fu concepita da Franz Liszt (1811-1886) nel 1838. Ne seguirono due versioni, la prima completata nel 1853 e la seconda nel 1864. L'appariscente pezzo virt...

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) scrisse 19 Rapsodie ungheresi per pianoforte come modo per incorporare la musica della sua giovinezza nelle sue composizioni, e la Rapsodia ungherese n. 2 in do diesis minore,...

American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) originally wrote his orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 42 in 1891, although the original version only included four movements. In 1893, MacDowell added the 3rd...

Francisco de Madina (1907-1972), also known as Aita Madina, received his education in Bordeaux and was ordained a priest in 1929. He served his first parish in Buenos Aires and became director of a sc...

Francisco de Madina (1907-1972), also known as Aita Madina, received his education in Bordeaux and was ordained a priest in 1929. He served his first parish in Buenos Aires and became director of a sc...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) compose la sua QUINTA SINFONIA tra il 1901 e il 1902, periodo in cui ottenne un grande successo nella sua carriera di direttore d'orchestra e conobbe e sposò Alma Schindler,...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scrisse il Capriccio Brillant, op. 22 durante il suo secondo viaggio in Inghilterra. Questo affascinante esempio di scrittura pianistica di Mendelssohn si articola in due...

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...

In 1840, the King of Prussia invited Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) to accept a lofty musical appointment in the French Academie Royale. A few years later, Wilhelm IV commissioned the composer to write...

Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, is based on La folle journee ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled...