Ravel composed his Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) for piano solo in 1899 while he was studying at the Paris Conservatory under Gabriel Fauré. Although it was published ju...
With his Galop Infernal from the second act of his operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (1858 in Paris), Jacques Offenbach gave us what is probably the most famous music ever written to accompany the ca...
Gustav Mahler wrote his 5th symphony between 1901 and 1904 (premièred in Cologne in 1904) and it is one of his most performed symphonies today. It is in particular the work's Adagietto - originally co...
Prokofjew schrieb sein Ballet 'Romeo und Julia' (op. 64) 1935 im Auftrag des Bolschoi-Theaters, wobei sich die Handlung in der endgültigen Fassung des Balletts eng am Theaterstück von William Shakespe...
