Kalmus Orchestra Library

Sholom Secunda (1894-1974), a Ukrainian-Jewish composer whose family emigrated to the United States in 1907, began his musical career working in a comedy theater chorus. Following his formal education...

Sholom Secunda (1894-1974), a Ukrainian-Jewish composer whose family emigrated to the United States in 1907, began his musical career working in a comedy theater chorus. Following his formal education...

Accessible for a variety of reasons, the novelty of a bossa nova on your concert will set the evening apart. A jazz rhythm section (guitar, bass, piano, drum set, and shaker) lend the arrangement auth...

Written by American composer Don Gillis (1912-1978), the Tango Lullaby (1956) was originally meant to be a movement of a ballet called Twinkletoes that Gillis abandoned because he discovered that the...

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is subtitled "Resurrection Symphony", and is the first major work that established the composer's lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. Written over...

Originally written in 1915 by Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as a piano suite (Sz. 56) of six short movements, borrowing from the work he did with Kodály collecting and classifying thousands of folk tunes du...

Originally written in 1915 by Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as a piano suite (Sz. 56) of six short movements, borrowing from the work he did with Kodály collecting and classifying thousands of folk tunes du...

Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) English Folk Songs Suite, IRV 16, consists of three movements, the first two of which are based on the folk songs "Seventeen Come Sunday" and "My Bonny Boy"; the th...

The Irish folk tune LONDONDERRY AIR, which is among the very best known folk melodies in the world, has been arranged by Irish composer Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) for solo violin, harp, and string orc...

Jobim has become one of Brazil's most recognized composers. A brilliant bossa nova, Surfboard captures the rhythmic irresistibility of Latin dance music. Instrumentation: 2.1+EH.1+BCl.2: 2.2.0.0: Perc...

KOMM, SÜSSER TOD (Come, Sweet Death) was originally written for solo voice and basso continuo as part of the 69 SACRED SONGS AND ARIAS that J. S. Bach contributed to MUSICALISCHES GESANGBUCH by Georg...

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...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was among those composers in what is c...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was among those composers in what is c...

This is a programmatic masterpiece! You can almost hear the breaking waves and imagine the vastness of the cave Mendelssohn encountered on his tour of the Hebrides Islands of Scotland. With numerous t...

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...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) composed his CONCERTO FOR PIANO No. 2 in A minor, Op. 85 in 1816, at the height of his career as a virtuoso pianist and composer bridging the Classical and early Roma...

Written by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) sometime in 1733-1734, the Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C, BWV 1061 appears to have been originally written for only the two solo harpsichords. The string parts we...

This is a programmatic masterpiece! You can almost hear the breaking waves and imagine the vastness of the cave Mendelssohn encountered on his tour of the Hebrides Islands of Scotland. With numerous t...

Written in 1911 and one of two suites under Op. 28 written originally for military band, the Second Suite in F is longer and considered more difficult than its sister suite. This version for orchestra...

L'ARLÉSIENNE (THE WOMAN FROM ARLES), a play produced in 1872, was adapted from an 1868 novel by the author Alphonse Daudet. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) was commissioned to write the incidental music for...

L'ARLÉSIENNE (THE WOMAN FROM ARLES), a play produced in 1872, was adapted from an 1868 novel by the author Alphonse Daudet. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) was commissioned to write the incidental music for...

Although he had already completed his F minor concerto, Frédéric Chopin's (1810-1849) CONCERTO FOR PIANO NO. 1 IN E MINOR, OP. 11 was the first to be published. Composed in 1829, it premiered on March...

Although he had already completed his F minor concerto, Frédéric Chopin's (1810-1849) CONCERTO FOR PIANO NO. 1 IN E MINOR, OP. 11 was the first to be published. Composed in 1829, it premiered on March...

The Brandenburg Concertos are a collection of six instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) written around or before 1721 to be presented to Christian Ludwig, the Margrave of Brandenburg...