The Overture in E major and Ballet Scene (in French: Scène de ballet), respectively JS 145 and 163, are two single-movement works for orchestra written...

The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture in E♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr...

Scheherazade and the Russian Easter Festival Overture. Notes in his autograph orchestral score show that the former was completed between June 4 and August...

popular in later years. Since the late 1960s, The Nutcracker has been danced by many ballet companies, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies...

Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare's...

Passacaille in E-flat major, 3 4 (unfinished) The ballet is scored for the opera's full orchestra of flutes, oboes, clarinets (only present in the passacaille)...

discomfort with ballet (he briefly studied ballet in the 1920s) to his oft-expressed disdain for "inventing up to the arty". "Overture to Shall We Dance":was...

(1908–1988) and Heidi (1911–1982). Aino Järnefelt was born in Helsinki, into the strict and disciplined family of Finnish General Alexander Järnefelt and his...

Place") is a museum in Järvenpää, Finland, which was the home of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino (née Järnefelt), and their six daughters...

Scene 3: Hungarian March/Rakoczy March & Part II Scene 7: Ballet des syphes; Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9; Romeo et Juliette, Op. 17 – Love Scene;...

ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and,...

chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written in 1909 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is the only major work for string quartet of his mature...

a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of...

Origin of Fire (in Finnish: Tulen synty), Op. 32, is a single-movement, patriotic cantata for baritone, male choir, and orchestra written in 1902 by the Finnish...

Opera in Azerbaijan Opera in Canada Opera in Cuba Opera in Latin America Opera in Scotland Opera in Venezuela Western opera in Chinese Overture – Instrumental...

classical public, including Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. These, along with...

Jean-Philippe Rameau Overture from the opéra-ballet Les fêtes de Polymnie, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau Overture from the comédie-ballet Platée, composed...

two orchestral compositions, the Overture in E major and Ballet Scene, which were originally intended as movements in a symphony before the composer abandoned...

(2003). Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0691114972. Sources Deathridge J., Geck M. and Voss E. (1986). Wagner...

suite, overture and some compositions in freer forms are named as program music since they intended to bring out extra-musical elements like sights and incidents...

lover), Allegretto (3 4, B♭ major) Hyvää iltaa ... Jää hyvästi (Good evening, farewell), Andantino (cut time, F major & D minor) In the first movement, the...

an extended finale ensemble and is replete with solos, duets, trios and crowd scenes. There is also an extended ballet in act 2 according to the accepted...

opens act 3, and an overture at the start. When the dances are given in concert, a suite may be performed: Overture – "Polovtsian dances and march" from...

rf) is a society in Finland dedicated to the music of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was set up in December 1957. The Society and the Ministry of...

was written to commemorate Eugen Schauman who had in 1904 shot Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov and then killed himself. Sibelius mentioned on New Year's...

concert suite for harp and string orchestra written in 1922 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The Suite caractéristique is in three movements, each...

The Overture in A minor, JS 144, is a single-movement work for orchestra written in 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece premiered in Helsinki...

very popular ballets: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. He also composed operas, symphonies, choral works, concertos, and various other...

expanded it even further, adding ballets illustrating the kingdom of Neptune in Act 3 and bringing the total number of scenes in the four acts to twenty-two...

No. 8 in E♭ major (1905–1906) Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1910), first movement (incomplete; orchestrated by Gavril Yudin) Op. 3: Overture No. 1 in G minor...