Kalmus Orchestra Library

Hungarian violinist, composer, and music teacher Jenö Hubay (1858-1937) wrote a total of fourteen SCENES DE LA CZARDA (also SCÈNES DE LA CSÁRDA) over a forty-year period between 1879 and 1920. Intende...

This is the beautiful slow movement from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. This abridged version adds two alternate orchestrations to the original and is suitable for better orchestras everywhere. Inst...

The history of Beethoven's only opera, FIDELIO, is rife with twists and turns, among them that the opera was originally to be called LEONORE. Additionally, the opera is unique in that Beethoven compos...

Jacques Offenbach's (1819-1880) opéra bouffe in three acts, La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen) parodies the Greek myth of Helen and Paris' elopement, which set off the Trojan War according to Homer...

LOHENGRIN, first performed in 1850, is a Romantic opera in three acts, written by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) . Based on the legendary 13th century romance of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, who...

Zaïs by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was first performed on February 29, 1748 at the Opéra in Paris. It is a pastorale héroïque, a form of the opéra-ballet genre of French Baroque opera that draws...

Ariane et Barbe-bleue: Act III, Introduction forms part of Paul Dukas' (1865-1935) only completed opera, composed between 1899 and 1906, and premiered on May 10, 1907, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. D...

LOHENGRIN, first performed in 1850, is a Romantic opera in three acts, written by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Based on the legendary 13th century romance of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, who...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) Boléro, M. 81/ IMR 4, is a piece that grew out of an orchestration exercise based on a rhythm common in the title Spanish dance. Today, it's usually performed as an orchest...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) Boléro, M. 81/ IMR 4, is a piece that grew out of an orchestration exercise based on a rhythm common in the title Spanish dance. Today, it's usually performed as an orchest...

Written in 1891 as Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was considering Jeannette Thurber's generous offer to move to the United States and serve as director of her National Conservatory of Music in New York, C...

Written between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano No. 2 remains one of the composer's most enduringly popular pieces and cemented his reputation as composer o...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1858 and performed the work’s debut in Hanover, Germany, in 1859, to mixed reviews. The work initially began as a sonata for two pianos...

Habanera, composed for piano in October 1885, explores a folk tune that Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) collected on his five-month trip to Spain. The habanera derives its name from Havana, Cuba, charac...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) drew material for his NORWEGISCHE TÄNZE, Op. 35 (4 NORWEGIAN DANCES), originally scored for piano and four hands, from an 1853 collection of Norwegian folk tunes compiled by L...

Franz Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. 1:101, is the ninth of his twelve London symphonies. It is known as 'The Clock' due to the "ticking" rhythm that pervades the second...

The Prince of Denmark's March was composed around 1700 by Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674-1707) , an English Baroque composer and organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and it became one of the most enduring cere...

The Prince of Denmark's March was composed around 1700 by Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674-1707) , an English Baroque composer and organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and it became one of the most enduring cere...

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's (1844-1908) Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, was written at the request of Mily Balakirev and was premiered at one of his Free Music School concerts in St. Petersburg...

Written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1869, the Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 29 follows the standard concerto form while experimenting with harmony. Premiered on November 27th, 18...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote his final piano concerto, Concerto No. 5, Op. 103, in 1896, which debuted that year with the composer himself performing the solo part. It derives its subtitle, "...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) composed his Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (TrV 209) in 1902-1903, creating one of his most expansive and personal tone poems, a richly orchestrated portrait of a day in the...

Fatum, Op. 77 was composed in 1868 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) as an early symphonic poem inspired by the Romantic idea of inescapable fate, a theme that would recur throughout his later...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) wrote the waltz La plus que lente for solo piano in 1910, a work that may or may not have been inspired by a small sculpture on his mantelpiece. The title is meant to wryly...