Kalmus Orchestra Library

Minuet, Op. 21 was composed by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) in 1897 for piano, then orchestrated later that same year. This work falls just before the period of his breakthrough to international fame with...

Concertino for Viola in C major, Op. 7 was composed in 1886 by Andrei (Heinrich) Fyodorovich Arends (1855-1924), a Russian composer, conductor, and violinist. Originally written for viola and piano, t...

When Karl Traugott Queisser, trombonist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, asked Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to compose a trombone concerto for him, the composer declined due to time restraints. The task we...

Poème lyrique in D-flat major, Op. 12 was composed between 1884 and 1887 by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) while still in his late teens, during the period when he was emerging as one of the most prom...

The ANDANTE E RONDO UNGARESE, Op 35/J. 158 (also ANDANTE E RONDO ONGARESE; HUNGARIAN ANDANTE AND RONDO) was written in 1813 by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) in response to the success of his BASSOO...

In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 was composed by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) in 1903-1904, during the height of his international success after the Engima Variations and The Dream of Gerontius, following a...

Originally written for piano four hands in 1879, this set of 21 lively dance tunes, mostly on Hungarian themes, are among Johannes Brahms' most popular works today, and they were the most profitable f...

Richard Eilenberg (1848-1927) was a German composer of predominantly marches and dances for orchestra and military music, along with a ballet and a few operettas. The delightful galop Petersborough Sl...

Le Tribut de Zamora, CG 12 (The Tribute of Zamora) was composed in 1881 by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) as part of his final completed opera, a grand historical work set in medieval Spain during the con...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg), WWV 96 is a music drama/opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Taking nearly four and a half hours to perform in its entir...

At the close of the Allegro of the Overture, a climax of pleasurable activity, appears a stony figure of heroic mold - the Commendatore. Here, according to the opera-score, the trombones speak for the...

Walter S. Hartley (1927-2016), whose works for saxophone and low brass significantly expanded the repertoire available for those instruments, wrote the QUARTET CONCERTO for SATB saxophones in 1992 for...

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...

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) wrote the orchestral work BALLATA DELLE GNOMIDI (THE BALLAD OF THE GNOMIDES) in 1920, after he had already begun to gain international attention for his orchestral tone p...

Left incomplete at the time of his death, DOKTOR FAUST occupied Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) between the years 1916 and 1924. He had intended it to be his masterpiece. A completed version was construc...

Hauntingly lovely, this memorable selection from the Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will mesmerize your audience. Keys are C and E flat, the full orchestra is involved, and a discrete drum set p...

Composed by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) in 1910 originally for 2 pianos, MOCK MORRIS has been arranged for various ensembles, many of them by Grainger himself. Delightfully upbeat and lively,...

Composed by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) in 1910 originally for 2 pianos, MOCK MORRIS has been arranged for various ensembles, many of them by Grainger himself. Delightfully upbeat and lively,...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) wrote 8 Waltzes, Op. 54, for piano in 1879. At the suggestion of his publisher, he arranged two of the waltzes (nos. 1 and 4) for strings the following year. His transcripti...

Walter S. Hartley (1927-2016), whose works for saxophone and low brass significantly expanded the repertoire available for those instruments, wrote the QUARTET CONCERTO for SATB saxophones in 1992 for...

Malediction, S. 121 (Concerto for Piano and Strings in E minor) was composed in 1833 by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) during his early virtuoso period, at a time when he was exploring new forms of expressio...

Malediction, S. 121 (Concerto for Piano and Strings in E minor) was composed in 1833 by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) during his early virtuoso period, at a time when he was exploring new forms of expressio...

SUMMER EVENING is the first in a set of three short descriptive pieces (THREE SMALL TONE POEMS) for orchestra by Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Composed in 1890, it was not heard in concert until Sir T...

Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) in C-sharp minor, SC 65 was composed in 1890 by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) as an elegiac work for string quartet, written in response to the death of Amedeo, Duke of Savoy...

Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (complete incidental music) was composed between 1874 and 1875 by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) as incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem Peer Gynt, one of the most important w...