Kalmus Orchestra Library

The operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) was written in 1905 by Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (1870-1948), with a libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein. The story tells of a rich widow...

La Périchole: Paraphrase on the Operetta by Jacques Offenbac (1819-1880)h was composed in the mid-20th century by Rudolph Goehr (1906-1981), an Austrian-born British composer and conductor known for h...

La Périchole: Paraphrase on the Operetta by Jacques Offenbac (1819-1880)h was composed in the mid-20th century by Rudolph Goehr (1906-1981), an Austrian-born British composer and conductor known for h...

ORFEO, SV 318, by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), is the earliest regularly-performed opera. It was composed for the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga, in which he had gained experience in writing music for t...

ORFEO, SV 318, by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), is the earliest regularly-performed opera. It was composed for the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga, in which he had gained experience in writing music for t...

The comic operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) is the composer's best known operetta, though "The Waltz King" is perhaps better remembered for his contributions to that u...

The comic operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) is the composer's best known operetta, though "The Waltz King" is perhaps better remembered for his contributions to that u...

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...

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 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...

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: "Jesu, bleibet meine Freude"), orchestrated by Alfred Reed, originates from Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) cantata comp...

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...