Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

Soli, Chor, Orchester

This opera is the final section of the entertainment for young people called Let`s Make an Opera. The first section of this is in the form of a play and illustrates the preparation and rehearsal of an...

Textbuch/Libretto - OPERA LIBR - TB(E/D)

HPS 1132

HPS 712

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HPS 1125 Contents: Fanfare for the Common Man * Jubilee Variation * Preamble for a Solemn Occasion * Ceremonial Fanfare * Inaugural Fanfare.

The fateful Pravda article 'Muddle Instead of Music' appeared in January 1936, in which Shostakovich was directly attacked for his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, at which point the composer had comple...

In the summer of 1937 - during the dangerous time of Stalin's Great Terror - Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 5. The Pravda article "Muddle Instead of Music" from January 1936, which condemned...

While the German Wehrmacht besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich wrote his 'Leningrad' Symphony. More than a million people died during the 28-month-long isolation of the city. Against this backdrop, Shost...

In September 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem 'Babi Yar' appeared in the Soviet Literaturnaya Gazeta, addressing the mass shooting in 1941 of more than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children on the out...

Unterhaltungsmusik - Orchester

This orchestration, made for an ensemble of 15 instruments, can also be played by a small symphony orchestra. It is thus possible, without modifying the parts of the wind instruments, to increase the...