Partiture per orchestra

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...

L'ALLEGRO APPASSIONATO IN DO MINORE, Op. 70 è un'opera per pianoforte e orchestra di Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). È la seconda composizione del compositore ad essere chiamata così, composta più di...

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...

WERTHER, opera in quattro atti di Jules Massenet (1842-1912), si ispira a un romanzo di Goethe, I dolori del giovane Werther, che a sua volta si basa sul reale suicidio di un giovane tormentato dall'a...

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" (...

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...

Composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) in 1830, the two-act opera I Capuletti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Mantagues) stands as one of only two successful opera adaptations of Shakespeare's R...

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 preparazione da circa un decennio. Originariamente proposta già nel 1898...

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...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Manon Lescaut, the third opera and first notable success of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), took shape between 1889 and 1892. Five different writers worked on its libretto. The Teatro Regio in Turin saw...

The ROMANCE in F minor, Op. 11 (B. 39) was composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in 1877, reworked from the Andantino movement of his 1873 STRING QUARTET NO. 5 in F minor, a work written before he wa...

Cellist and composer David Popper published the CELLO CONCERTO No. 5 in C major, Hob. VIIb:5, in 1899 as a completion of stetches supposedly made by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Due to more recent...

Il balletto LE STAGIONI (LES SAISONS), Op. 67 fu composto da Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) per il famoso coreografo Marius Petipa nel 1899. Originariamente destinato a essere scritto dall'amico di Gl...

Il balletto LE STAGIONI (LES SAISONS), Op. 67 fu composto da Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) per il famoso coreografo Marius Petipa nel 1899. Originariamente destinato a essere scritto dall'amico di Gl...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) compose CANZONI SU POESIE DI RUECKERT (CANZONI DOPO RÜCKERT; RÜCKERT-LIEDER) tra il 1901 e il 1902. Non furono concepite come un ciclo, con ogni canzone collegata solo al poe...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...