Written in 1887 for the violinist Raphael Diaz Albertini with whom he was touring, the Havanaise ...

Berlioz composed his Grand Messe des Morts, or Requiem, in 1837 for a huge orchestra with four br...

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

Stenhammar began work on what many consider to be his finest orchestral work in 1907-08. He compl...

Composed in 1892 as he he was working on his ninth symphony, Psalm 150 is Bruckner's final sacred...

First heard with the premiere of the one-act farce on January 27, 1813 in Venice at the Teatro Sa...

First heard with the opera's premiere on October 9, 1826 in Paris' Salle le Peletier, Rossini's b...

Vaughan Williams' masterpiece for string orchestra was given its premiere on September 6th, 1910 ...

Composed in 1783 for Antonin Kraft, cellist in the court orchestra of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's D...

Rachmaninov's first one-act opera was written in 1893 while still a student at the Moscow Conserv...

This oratorio by a youthful Camille Saint-Saens was first performed by soloists, chorus and small...

In April, 1819, Beethoven's patron (and pupil) Archduke Rudolph was elected a cardinal, and in Ju...