Wil van der Beek

The most important work by the Russian composer Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881) is undoubtedly his masterly opera Boris Godunov. A number of years after the composer's death, this opera was re-orchestr...

World Set (incl. Score)

Franz von Suppe prägte nachhaltig die klassische Wiener Operette. In seiner komischen Oper Banditenstreiche zog Suppe alle kompositorischen Register, die ihn bei einem so breiten Publikum beliebt gema...

This overture introducing Fibich's opera 'Sarka', was composed between 1896 and 1897 and is based on a famous Bohemian legend. Several Czech composers, such as Bedrich Smetana and Leos Janacek, have u...

Pietro Mascagni (Livorno 1863 - Rome 1945) got famous overnight when his first opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana' was premiered in 1890. Of his later operas only 'L'Amico Fritz' and 'Iris' got some success....

Farewell Song has been taken from Der Trompeter von Säckingen by Victor E. Nessler (1841-1890). This opera tells the sentimental story of a plain musician who is eventually allowed to marry the daught...

Farewell Song has been taken from Der Trompeter von Säckingen by Victor E. Nessler (1841-1890). This opera tells the sentimental story of a plain musician who is eventually allowed to marry the daught...

Organ player and composer Pietro Allessandro Yon (Turijn 1886-New York 1943) was of Italian origin. He studied in Milan, Turin and Rome. At first he worked as an organist in Rome; in 1907 he left for...