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Preface Composed in the mid-1860s during one of many frustrating points in the young composer's life, Pytor Tchaikovsky's TH 38 (Overture in C minor), never performed during his lifetime, is a testame...

Preface "At Tordenskjold's in Holmen's Church," "From David's Psalm 103 (or 16)," "From David's Psalm 103," "Danish Pictures," "Danish Cities," "Fanfare Symphony," "Dannebrogklänge" - there were many...

Preface Granville Bantock was a composer caught between two musical cultures. The son of a prominent London surgeon, Bantock studied at the Royal Academy of Music while Tchaikovsky was still a rising...

Preface The Romanian composer George Enescu was the only surviving child of his parents, who had lost several children as stillbirths or through illness. His father, Costache Enescu, worked as an admi...

Preface The music of Joachim Raff' has enjoyed a small renaissance in the last 20 years. For a long time, the once-famous musician was almost forgotten. When Pyotr Tchaikovsky attended the Bayreuth Fe...

Preface Arnold Bax was born and brought up in London in a wealthy and cultivated family. Showing early showed talent in music, he studied at the Royal Academy in London and in Dresden, where he first...

Preface Willem Pijper was a Dutch composer, music journalist, and teacher who rose from a humble background to become a central figure of musical life in the Netherlands. Along with his contemporary M...

Preface Historians of American music have identified two New England Schools of music, though this terminology refers to historical movements, not formal arrangements. John Knowles Paine is considered...

Premiere 18 March 1910 in Vienna Musikverein, Tonkünstler Orchester; Franz Schreker, conductor First publication of the orchestral score The third movement was engraved, and the other movements remain...

ICB 19 (1888, rev. 1919) First edition published Margault [same imprint as Édition mutuelle], Paris, France, 1902 Orchestration solo piano with 2 flutes, piccolo, oboe, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons,...

Excerpted from La habanera: Drame lyrique en trois actes (poème et musique de R. Laparra) Dedication: À Monsieur et Madame Albert Carré. Albert Carré (1852-1938) and Marguerite Giraud-Carré (1880-1947...

Foreword In Norway, it is called Fossegrim, in Sweden Strömkarlen or Näcken, and in Germany this legendary creature is known as Nöck: we are talking about a spirit or troll that lives in waterfalls, e...

COMMENTARY After the roaring success of Periodical Overture No. 20, it is no wonder that Robert Bremner (c.1713-1789) wanted to continue publishing works by Niccolò Piccinni (Piccini) (1728-1800). In...

The "Gesang der Parzen" op. 89 was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1882. In his last work for choir and orchestra, he set a section from the drama "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

Mike Svoboda continues his series of Concert Etudes for Solo Trombone consistently with Etudes Nos. 6 and 7. While the first five pieces of the ten-part collection were primarily pedagogically motivat...

Mike Svoboda continues his series of Concert Etudes for Solo Trombone consistently with Etudes Nos. 6 and 7. While the first five pieces of the ten-part collection were primarily pedagogically motivat...

Introduzione e Allegretto giocoso by Paolo Baratto is a work full of contrasts and liveliness. It begins with an expressive Introduzione in which each motif seems to emerge from a subtle interplay of...

Introduzione e Allegretto giocoso by Paolo Baratto is a work full of contrasts and liveliness. It begins with an expressive Introduzione in which each motif seems to emerge from a subtle interplay of...

Introduzione e Allegretto giocoso by Paolo Baratto is a work full of contrasts and liveliness. It begins with an expressive Introduzione in which each motif seems to emerge from a subtle interplay of...

Introduzione e Allegretto giocoso by Paolo Baratto is a work full of contrasts and liveliness. It begins with an expressive Introduzione in which each motif seems to emerge from a subtle interplay of...