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Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Though now more famous as the father of Richard Strauss, Franz Strauss was a very well-known horn player with a well-documented reputation for being both musically conservative and difficult to work w...

Though now more famous as the father of Richard Strauss, Franz Strauss was a very well-known horn player with a well-documented reputation for being both musically conservative and difficult to work w...

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893-1962) was an English conductor and composer. Besides his career as a conductor, Goossens was also a skilled composer, completing nearly seventy works including chambe...

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893-1962) was an English conductor and composer. Besides his career as a conductor, Goossens was also a skilled composer, completing nearly seventy works including chambe...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewha...

Tschaikovsky composed his 'Concerto for Violin and Orchestra' in the spring of 1878. The work does have a rocky beginning, somewhat like that of his first Piano Concerto. The premiere was both somewha...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it´s quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The 'Carmen Fantasy' , together wit...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it's quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The Carmen Fantasy, together with Z...

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792) was a German-Czech composer and a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies...

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792) was a German-Czech composer and a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. Rosetti wrote over 400 compositions, primarily instrumental music including many symphonies...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

The Piano Concerto No. 23, KV 488 was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786. The slow second movement, in ternary form, is somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone w...

The Piano Concerto No. 23, KV 488 was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786. The slow second movement, in ternary form, is somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone w...

Jocelyn is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard and is best remembered for Godard's most enduring composition, the tender berceuse (lullaby) for tenor 'Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore' commonly known in En...

Jocelyn is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard and is best remembered for Godard's most enduring composition, the tender berceuse (lullaby) for tenor 'Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore' commonly known in En...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

On 15 March 1811 Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) arrived in Munich looking for work.He must have begun his Clarinet Concertino almost at once: it was written for Heinrich Bärmann, the clarinettist of...

On 15 March 1811 Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) arrived in Munich looking for work.He must have begun his Clarinet Concertino almost at once: it was written for Heinrich Bärmann, the clarinettist of...

Francis Poulenc wrote the Sonata for Flute December 1956 and it is dedicated to the American patroness of the arts, Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge. The first performance was given by Jean-Pierre Rampal ac...