Classical Music

Richard Strauss composed "Allerseelen" ("Place the fragrant resedas on the table") in 1885 as a 21-year-old, newly appointed court music director in Meiningen. Today, it is considered one of his most...

Richard Strauss composed "Allerseelen" ("Place the fragrant resedas on the table") in 1885 as a 21-year-old, newly appointed court music director in Meiningen. Today, it is one of his most popular son...

Danish composer John Høybye enjoys great acclaim at home and abroad, not just for his music but also for his work as a (choral) conductor and arranger. Presenting a medium level of difficulty, Hope. E...

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First critical edition. Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a...

From a music-historical point of view, Anton Diabelli belongs to a middle group of Biedermeier composers who can be assigned neither to the Classical nor to the Romantic period. Although Diabelli want...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...

Antonio Vivaldi set Psalm 111 (112) "Beatus vir" three times ("Blessed is the man who fears the Lord"). Of these, two have survived that could hardly be more different: the extensive, double-choir wor...

Psalm 150 from 1884 is a composition from César Franck's creative maturity. The characteristic features of his style appear in a small space: the emphatically symphonic language, the bold, unmistakabl...