Kalmus Orchestra Library

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS INTERMEZZO (TAUSEND UN EINE NACHT INTERMEZZO) is named after the opera INDIGO UN DIE VIERTZIG RAEUBER (INDIGO AND THE FORTY THIEVES) by Johann Strauss II. Premiered on February...

Compiled and arranged by Hungarian-born conductor and composer Antal Dorati (1906-1988), LA VIE PARISIENNE: OVERTURE ON THEMES BY OFFENBACH is among the most delightfully charming light works in the o...

Ernst Toch's (1887-1964) CIRCUS: AN OVERTURE, written in 1953 is meant to evoke the atmosphere of a circus and recalls some of the most common types of music heard there. The piece opens and closes wi...

The development of the music that Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote for the orchestral suite, Op. 60, tells a complicated history. Originally, he and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal collaborated...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...

César Franck (1822-1890) wrote his Mass in A Major, Op. 12 in the summer of 1860. It was later revised in 1872, with the then newly composed Panis angelicus replacing the original movement O salutaris...

Franz Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) CONCERTO FOR CELLO in C, Hob. VIIb: 1 is a rare instance where a masterpiece was lost, in this case for almost 200 years, before being rediscovered. The manuscript was...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, MACBETH was Verdi's tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about creating an opera "unl...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, MACBETH was Verdi's tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about creating an opera "unl...

LE ROI MALGRÉ LUI (THE RELUCTANT KING) is a comic opera by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), based on a 1836 vaudeville play by Virginie Ancelot. The stage work depicts the brief reign of Henri, Duke of...

LE ROI MALGRÉ LUI (THE RELUCTANT KING) is a comic opera by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), based on a 1836 vaudeville play by Virginie Ancelot. The stage work depicts the brief reign of Henri, Duke of...

This standardized version of the patriotic melody has been harmonized and orchestrated by famed conductor and composer Walter Damrosch. Instrumentation: 2+Picc.2.2.2: 4.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(3-4): Str (9-8...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) wrote A London Symphony (also called Symphony No. 2, though never by the composer) between 1912 and 1913 at the prompting of his friend and fellow composer George Bu...

When Max Reinhardt was engaged to direct a German language production of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Vienna Volksbühne in 1918, he asked Korngold to compose the incidental music. The p...

When Max Reinhardt was engaged to direct a German language production of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Vienna Volksbühne in 1918, he asked Korngold to compose the incidental music. The p...

ODELETTE for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 162, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in the last year of his life, refers to the secular variety of the ode, an ancient Greek poetic form praising a p...

ODELETTE for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 162, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in the last year of his life, refers to the secular variety of the ode, an ancient Greek poetic form praising a p...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, was completed in 1926. The work exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere, the composer made cuts and oth...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, was completed in 1926. The work exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere, the composer made cuts and oth...

Between 1917 and 1931, Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) transcribed three orchestral suites from original pieces written for lute between the 16th and 18th centuries. The first suite, written in 1917, in...

Between 1917 and 1931, Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) transcribed three orchestral suites from original pieces written for lute between the 16th and 18th centuries. The first suite, written in 1917, in...

As an inexhaustible proponent of Beethoven's life and work, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) produced a number of arrangements and transcriptions in homage to the great composer. His FANTASIE ÜBER MOTIVEN AUS...

As an inexhaustible proponent of Beethoven's life and work, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) produced a number of arrangements and transcriptions in homage to the great composer. His FANTASIE ÜBER MOTIVEN AUS...