Vaughan Williams conducted the first performance of his great choral symphony on his 38th birthda...

The Scherzo capriccioso was composed in the same period (1883-84) as the Symphony No.7, Op.70 and...

Vaughan Williams' setting of four poems from George Herbert's 1633 collection, The Temple: Sacred...

Otto Taubmann's classic vocal score of Mozart's Coronation Mass was first issued in the early 20t...

Verdi received a request in November of 1869 from the Viceroy of Egypt to compose a commemorative...

Composed between August 4 and October 25 of 1897, A Hero's Song was at first entitled A Hero's Li...

Comissioned by the Committee for the Completion of the National Theatre, Dvorak composed this wor...

Liszt's dark paraphrase on the Gregorian chant 'Dies irae' for piano and orchestra was planned as...

Berlioz composed his tremendous 'Legende dramatique' in 1845-46, largely creating his own librett...

The composer worked on this symphonic poem from January to April of 1896. The title refers to a C...

This new vocal score is a digitally enhanced reissue of the score prepared by the renowned Englis...

Debussy's sole completed opera was given its premiere at Paris' Opera Comique on April 30, 1902. ...

Composed in 1914, Ravel's sole work for the classical ensemble of piano, violin and cello was fir...

Composed in 1913 to Konstantin Balmont's free adaptation in Russian of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe,...

Commissioned by the eminent violinist Joseph Joachim after a Berlin meeting in April of 1879, Dvo...

Composed in 1913 to a scenario for a Children's Ballet by André Hallé, the music existed only in ...

The first of four late tone poems inspired by 'Bouquet', a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromir...

At least one of the two works inspired by Nikolaus Lenau's poem on the familiar Faust legend may ...

Debussy composed his concertante masterwork on commission from Pleyel for a competition held at t...

Falla's showpiece El Amor Brujo (The Phantom Lover) was first composed as a gitaneria for voice, ...

Haydn's final mass was given its premiere in Eisenstadt, at the Esterházy place chapel on Septemb...

Composed in 1891, V P¿írod¿ (In Nature's Realm) is the first of Dvorak's three concert overtures ...

Dvorak received a commission for this work in 1877 for a benefit concert to raise funds for the c...

Dedicated to 'my friends pictured within', Elgar's orchestral showpiece started life as a simple ...

Composed in 1913 to Konstantin Balmont's free adaptation in Russian of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe,...

Premiered by the renowned violinist Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg in February of 1905, Glazunov'...

Hamlet, inspired by the well-known Shakespeare tragedy, is number ten in Liszt's series of thirte...

Composed in the late summer of 1876, Dvorak's first effort at a full-blown concerto shows signs o...

Debussy's sole completed opera was given its premiere at Paris' Opera Comique on April 30, 1902. ...

Debussy's one-act ballet, or 'Poème dansé', was given its first performance by Serge Diaghilev's ...

The second in a ground-breaking series of thirteen works for orchestra, Liszt's Tasso. Lamento e ...

Composed in 1872 and first performed in Moscow at the Russian Musica Society on February 7, 1873,...

Dvorak composed this deservedly popular work 1878 shortly after the premiere of his opera The Cun...

The final work in the revolutionary series of thirteen tone poems Liszt composed for orchestra, V...

Dvorak's 'Stabat Mater' is a work deeply inspired by personal tragedy in the composer's life. Ori...

The third of the four late tone poems inspired by 'Bouquet', a collection of ballads by Karel Jar...

Last of the four late tone poems inspired by Bouquet, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromir Er...

Inspired by the painting by the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin, Rachmaninoff composed his symphonic ...

Composed in August of 1920 while vacationing in his native Switzerland, Pastorale d'ete (Summer P...

Desribed as one of Franck's 'tightest and most finished works', the Variations symphoniques of 18...

Dvorak's second set of Slavonic Dances was composed in response to a request from his German publ...

Composed for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Sea Pictures was heard for the first time on Octob...

Debussy composed his 'Scène lyrique' in 1884 for his Prix de Rome cantata entry. It was given its...

The first of the three Slovanské rapsodie was composed from February 13 to March 17 of 1878, foll...

The Carnival Overture, Op.92 - second of the set of three concert overtures originally entitled a...

Bach composed the first version of this piece in 1723 using the key of E-flat major for the Chris...

Composed rapidly during April of 1879 in the wake of his success with the two serenades (Opp.22 a...

Sergei Rachmaninoff was the solo pianist for the world premiere of his third concerto, renowned a...