The Big Foto The fourth movement Sarabande of George Frideric Handel’s Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) for solo harpsichord achieved modern popularity when an orchestrated version was used by Stanley Kubrick for his 1975 film Barry Lyndon. Later, Brian De Palma featured the same orchestration as the overture for his 2007 film Redacted. Also, in another [...]
Le Carnaval des Animaux’ (The Carnival of the Animals) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Le Carnaval was composed in February 1886 while Saint-Saëns was vacationing in a small Austrian village. It was originally scored for a chamber group of flute, clarinet, two pianos, glass harmonica, xylophone, two [...]
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 1868 – 9 July 1894) was a Mexican composer, violinist, and band leader.
Rosas’s best known work is “Sobre las Olas” or “Over the Waves” waltz. It was first published by Rosas in 1884 when he was in New Orleans, Louisiana with the popular Mexican band at the World [...]
Bach’s most famous organ piece, with a bar-graph score.
And for cartoon lovers. Fantasia (1940)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Musical score: Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 (Stokowski’s own orchestration)
Directed by Samuel Armstrong
Story development: Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer, and Phil Dike
Art direction: Robert Cormack
Background painting: Joe Stahley, John Hench, and [...]
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). Orff regarded Carmina Burana as the real beginning of his career, and ordered his publisher to destroy all his previous works.
Carmina Burana the poems
Carmina Burana , Latin for “Songs from Beuern”, is the [...]
The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The work is more commonly known by the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The German title means “a little serenade”, though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as “a little night music”.
The work is [...]
Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli (April 18, 1819, Spalato (Split) – May 21, 1895 (aged 76), Vienna) was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A composer and conductor of the Romantic [...]
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