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  • Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations – Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations – Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk. This composition consists of 14 variations on an original theme, known as the “Enigma,” Op. 36….

  • Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei – Performed by The Dale Warland Singers

    Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei – Performed by The Dale Warland Singers

    Composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) transcribed his well-known piece, Adagio for Strings, into an eight-part choir arrangement called Agnus Dei. The Dale Warland Singers perform this version. The string version of…

  • University of Warwick Brass Performs Saint Saens’ Marche Militaire

    University of Warwick Brass Performs Saint Saens’ Marche Militaire

    University of Warwick Brass performs Saint Saens’ Marche Militaire….

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  • John Williams – The Imperial March from Star Wars

    John Williams – The Imperial March from Star Wars

    John Williams conducts the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back at the LA Opening Gala 2014.

  • Felix Mendelssohn – War March of the Priests, Op. 74

    Felix Mendelssohn – War March of the Priests, Op. 74

    German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote incidental music for Jean Racine’s play “Athalie” in 1845. The play was first performed in Berlin and Mendelssohn’s op. 74 was part of the performance….

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Fritz Kreisler

    …a year later. Despite the absence of children, their love story endured for sixty years, until Kreisler’s death. The World War I Era In 1910, Kreisler premiered Sir Edward Elgar’s…

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Stravinsky

    …a seminal work of the 20th century, marking a major turning point in Stravinsky’s career. The Swiss Period: 1914-1920 The outbreak of World War I forced Stravinsky to take refuge…

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Frédéric Chopin

    …great reverence. Early Life Frédéric François Chopin was born on either February 22nd or March 1st, 1810, in the small village of Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw in the Duchy of…

  • Georges Bizet

    Georges Bizet

    …Bizet’s operas that did reach the stage during this time, Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth, were not immediately successful. Personal Life and the Franco-Prussian War…

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    …a composer. During World War I, Vaughan Williams served as an ambulance driver in France, an experience that deeply affected him and influenced his later compositions. After the war, he…