OVERTURE TO “SEMIRAMIDE” GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792-1886) GIoacchino Rossini hardly fits the stereotype of the genius composer: a struggling artist, torn by emotional turmoil and unable to deal with the world. […]
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OVERTURE TO RUSSLAN AND LUDMILLA MIKHAIL IVANOVICH GLINKA (1804-1857) Mikhail Glinka is often called “the founder of Russian nationalism” in music, although it might be more proper to call him
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Scherzo à la Russe, op. 16 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) When Igor Stravinsky died at the ripe old age of 90, the musical world lost one of its most original voices.
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King Stephen Overture, op. 117 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Beethoven is almost certainly the most admired composer of serious music in the Western culture. The story of his
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POEM FOR FLUTE AND ORCHESTRA CHARLES T. GRIFFES (1884-192O) Charles Tomlinson Griffes is one of the more important composers from the turn of the century, a badly neglected period of
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