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The four-act opera ADRIANA LECOUVREUR was composed by Francesco Cilea (1866-1950) and premiered on November 6, 1902, at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, with Angelica Pandolfini in the title role and Enric...

This collection of forty-two indispensable etudes for violin by Rodolphe Kreutzer has been transcribed for the viola by Louis Pagels.

Jacques Féréol Mazas' Etudes Op. 36 for violin were first published in 1843 by Simrock. This publication is the later transcription (c. 1880) of the etudes for viola by Ludwig Pagels. These advanced s...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

This collection of twelve songs by the brilliant 19th century composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) include the original language (German or Italian for each) with English translations by Theodore Baker an...

Gianni Schicchi is a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The final and most popular opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a deat...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) began to work on his POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEM OF LOVE AND THE SEA), OP. 19, in 1882. The composer chose two poems written by his friend Maurice Bouchor as source...

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...

George Thompson, a collector of folk tunes, commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) to arrange a selection of the songs he had gathered. In 1814, they were first published in a volume titled "A...

Written between 1865-1868, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), Op. 45 was Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) longest work. The seven movement mass sets Martin Luther's translation of Biblical text to m...

The Hymn of Jesus, Op. 37 / H. 140 was composed in 1917 by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) and stands among the composer's most original and visionary choral works. Drawing its text from the apocryphal Acts...

The first "Children's Piano Album" (Op. 123) was written in 1906, with the second series (Op. 126) written the year after. Each contains 12 songs that are harmonically interesting written for children...

This two-volume edition of J.S. Bach's WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music, has been edited by Hans Bischoff, with Bischoff's notes tra...

This two-volume edition of J.S. Bach's WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music, has been edited by Hans Bischoff, with Bischoff's notes tra...

This collection of important piano works by the turn-of-the-century French composer, Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) has been edited and fingered by William Scharfenberg. Affiliating herself with nationa...

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) completed his Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, in 1908, and it is the first of three "Dresden pieces," the others being his Symphony No. 2 and part of an opera. A...

This collection of 11 preludes is a great addition to an early advanced player's repertoire. Each prelude features characteristics from other famous composers.

Also referred to as "Capriccio," Joseph Haydn's FANTASIA IN C Major, Hob. XVII:4 is based on the Austrian folk song "Do Bäuren hat d'Katz valor'n" ("The farmer's wife has lost her cat"). About the pie...

Inspired by Phillip Emanuel Bach's 1753 "Versuch ueber die wahre Art das Klavier zu spielen" (Treatise on the correct manner of playing the Clavier), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813), composer and Dire...

This collection of 10 short pieces by Sergei Prokofjew ranges in style and difficulty and can be performed in its entirety or individually.

Camille Saint-Saëns originally wrote Allegro Appassionato for Violoncello and small orchestra. As the title suggests, this piece is a smooth piece that has abrupt tempo changes and a cadenza-like them...

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) spent his career in the court of Frederick the Great working as a composer, flutist, and flute maker. While he composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, most...

These THREE MOTETS by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1636-1704) are each for chorus and various instrument accompaniments. 1. Serve bone (Women's Chorus and Organ), 2. Pulchra Es (Women's Chorus and Organ)...

Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) choral symphony, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 was composed between 1822 and 1824, and is the last completed symphony by the composer. Considered by many to be...