Classic and serious (page 2)

The Credo is the third movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's outstanding work, the Great Mass in B minor. It was written after the Kyrie and Gloria, written in 1733,...

Gloria, is the second movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Great Mass in B minor. Like the Kyrie, it was written in 1733 and has a similar structure. It is a new...

The Great Mass in B minor BWV 232 is considered by critics to be Johann Sebastian Bach's finest work of religious music. It is divided into four movements and the...

The Kuss-Walzer or "Kiss Waltz," Op. 400 is a waltz Johann Strauss II composed in 1881. This waltz was dedicated to his second wife, Angelika Dittrich. This waltz...

"On the Beautiful Blue Danube" is one of the most famous waltzes by Johann Strauss II, composed in 1867. It was originally performed by a choir, as it was composed...

"Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102" is one of three instrumental concertos by Johannes Brahms. It was written after 1880, but I have not...

The Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of violin literature. The concerto was dedicated to Joseph...

"Lullaby" (pl. lullaby) is a musical piece created in the form of a lullaby by German composer Johannes Brahms (German composer, pianist and conductor of the Romantic...

The Concerto in B-flat Major was written 24 years after Johannes Brahms' first concerto in 1881, which, in addition to being symphonic, is also expanded to 4 movements....

Concerto in D minor, written in 1857 by the eminent composer Johannes Brahms (after Schumann's death). In it he completely broke with the previous concerto style...

"Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" is one of the best-known and most frequently performed pieces of classical music. It was created between 1804 and 1808 and...

"For Eliza" is a piano miniature composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1810, whose professional name is "Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59." The composer's biographers...

"Moonlight Sonata" is the colloquial name of the piano sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Sonata quasi una fantasia" by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was written...

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is his last completed symphony. It is known mainly for its final cantata to the words of Friedrich von...

"Caprice No.24" is the last of Paganini's 24 caprices. Caprices for violin are among his most famous works. They are of a show-off nature, their performers can...

The piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" is from the 1990 opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov came from a Russian aristocratic...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer born in Votkinsk on May 7, 1840. "Swan Lake" is a ballet written by him in 1877. It is a classical ballet in three...

"Russian Dance" is one of the final dances from Peter Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet "The Nutcracker." You are invited to this short performance of Peter Tchaikovsky...

"The Dance of the Sugar Bard" is one of the final dances in Peter Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker." It is a ballet in 2 acts, 3 pictures, and the play was...

"Pas de Quatre Small Swans" or "Dance of the Four Swans" is one of the dances featured in Peter Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake," which premiered at the Grand Tetra...