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Completed in 1849, the Te Deum, like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, is one of Berlioz's self-described "architectural" works. While the orchestral forces required for the Te Deum...

Unlike so many of his symphonies, Bruckner's Te Deum was an unqualified success from the very first. The composer even referred to the piece as "the pride of my life." Though composed in draft form...

Handel's Coronation Anthems were composed from September to October of 1727, only four years in his post as composer of music for the Chapel Royal. The occasion was the coronation of the new king,...

This 35-minute work is sometimes thought of as Elgar's answer to his contemporary Richard Strauss' tone poem "Ein Heldenleben." It was given its premiere at the Birmingham Music Festival on Oct. 1,...

Dubois' oratorio was given its premiere on Good Friday (April 19), 1867 at ?glise de la Madeleine in Paris under the composer's direction. Although first published in 1886 by Georges Hartmann of...

Probably the most famous march in history, Stars and Stripes Forever was composed on Christmas Day 1896 while Sousa was traveling aboard the SS Teutonic bound for New York. In his autobiography,...

Thoough originally composed as a patomime-ballet for chamber orchestra entitled El corregidor y la molinera during the years of the first world war, Falla received a commission from Sergey Diaghilev,...

Grainger's extraordinary work, subtitled "music to an imaginary ballet", was prompted by a request from the English conductor Thomas Beecham to compose a ballet score for the Diaghilev company. The...

Haydn composed his famous concerto especially for trumpet for his friend Anton Weidinger (1766-1852), a virtouoso performer who developed a special keyed trumpet which allowed a full chromatic scale...

Hummel was appointed the successor to Joseph Haydn as Konzertmeister for the court orchestra of Nikolaus II, Prince Esterh?zy in 1803. For the opening concert marking the new appointment, which was...

Author: Joseph HaydnPublisher: Serenissima MusicPublication Date: Aug 25, 2022Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1608742776ISBN-13: 9781608742776

Wieniawki's second concerto might have been started as early as 1856, but the work was not finished until shortly before its premiere, given in St. Petersburg on November 27, 1862 with the composer...

The second in Smetana's "Ma Vlast" a six-part series of tone poems inspired by his Czech homeland, Vltava (Die Moldau in German) is named for the river that flows through the heart of Prague. This...

This is an unabridged digitally enhanced reprint of the vocal score originally issued ca.1925 by G. Schirmer in New York, with an English translation by Henry S. Drinker. The Cantata Wachet auf, ruft...