Kalmus Orchestra Library

This work is one of three in a series of Christmas carol collections arranged for orchestra that encourages audience participation.  Carols included in Series I: 1. We Three Kings, 2. O Tannenbau...

This work is one of three in a series of Christmas carol collections arranged for orchestra that encourages audience participation.  Carols included in Series I: 1. We Three Kings, 2. O Tannenbau...

Premiering on May 22, 1813 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vicenza, Milan, and Naples. It wa...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was among those composers in what is c...

Una delle sue opere più lunghe e l'ultima a godere di immediata popolarità, il Concerto per violino in si minore op. 61 di Edward Elgar (1857-1934) ha sempre trovato posto nei programmi dei concerti,...

Il CONCERTO PER CELLO in do di Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Hob. VIIb: 1 è un raro caso in cui un capolavoro è andato perduto, in questo caso per quasi 200 anni, prima di essere riscoperto. Il mano...

Tzigane è una composizione rapsodica del compositore francese Maurice Ravel. Fu commissionata e dedicata alla violinista ungherese Jelly d'Arányi, pronipote dell'influente virtuoso del violino Joseph...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor in 1803, not long after writing the famous letter to his brothers, the Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he lamented his...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat shortly after Vienna surrendered to Napleon's invading forces in the spring of 1809. It received its premiere on November...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) compose il Concerto per violino in re maggiore, op. 61, nel 1806. La prima esecuzione da parte del violinista Franz Clement il 23 dicembre 1806 al Theater an der Wien...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote two romances for violin and orchestra, one in F and one in G. While the Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50, was published later and has a...

Beethoven's concerto for violin, cello and piano in C Major, Op. 56, commonly known as the TRIPLE CONCERTO, was composed in 1803 and premiered in 1808.  The choice of the three instruments effect...

In January 1834, the great violinist Niccolo Paganini asked Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) to write a viola concerto so that he could showcase his newly-acquired Stradivarius, though Paganini rejected the...

Il compositore e violoncellista italiano Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) scrisse in epoca classica e prevalentemente in stile galante. Nel corso della sua carriera compose dodici concerti per vio...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) wrote his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, in 1878. He composed the work for his longtime friend, famed violinist Joseph Joachim, who premiered it in Leipzig with the Ge...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) compose il Doppio concerto in la minore per violino e violoncello, op. 102 nel 1887, segnando la sua ultima opera per orchestra. Scritto per il violoncellista Robert Hausma...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) compose il Doppio concerto in la minore per violino e violoncello, op. 102 nel 1887, segnando la sua ultima opera per orchestra. Scritto per il violoncellista Robert Hausma...

Max Bruch (1838-1920) compose il suo CONCERTO PER VIOLINO n. 1 in sol minore, op. 26 nel 1866, che fu eseguito per la prima volta il 24 aprile 1866 da Otto von Königslow al violino, con Max Bruch alla...

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) compose l'Andante Spianto e la Grande Polonaise Brillante in Mi bemolle maggiore, op. 22, tra il 1830 e il 1834. La polonaise, originariamente composta per pianoforte solo...

Nel 1879 Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) ricevette da Simrock, il suo editore, l'incarico di scrivere un concerto per violino. Dedicò il suo CONCERTO PER VIOLINO in la minore, op. 53/B. 108, a Joseph Joach...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) composed his Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B. 191 in 1894. It was the last solo concerto that the composer wrote, and it was the final work that he wrote during his...

In 1892 Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) embarked on a "farewell" tour of Bohemian and Moravian cities prior to departing for the United States, and he chose his friends, violinist Ferdinand Lachner and cel...

Il violinista, compositore e insegnante di musica ungherese Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) scrisse un totale di quattordici SCENES DE LA CZARDA (anche SCÈNES DE LA CSÁRDA) nell'arco di quarant'anni, tra il 18...

Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) wrote his SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE (also sometimes called his VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 2 as it is more a violin concerto than symphony), for the famed violinist Pablo Sarate in 1874. Th...