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As its title suggests, Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) was originally intended for children. Maurice Ravel wrote it as a piano duet for Mimi and Jean Godebski, the six- and seven-year-old children of close friends. After the Godebski siblings surrendered to stage fright, Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève ...

Written for a male choir and four trombones, Anton Bruckner wrote this motet on 21st April 1868 at the end of his stay in Linz. He wrote it for the 24th anniversary of the Liedertafel Frohsinn. The first performance occurred on 10th May 1868 as offertory of a mass of Antonio Lotti.The text is taken from Psalm 89 (Psalm 89:20-21).

Tchaikovsky began work on Swan Lake in August 1875, using material from a domestic ballet of the same name he wrote for his sister’s children in 1871. The score was completed in April 1876, and the ballet was first performed on March 4, 1877, in Moscow.The scenario, initially in two acts, was fash...

Wagner’s epic preliminary evening and three days in the life of the gods - Der Ring des Nibelungen - concludes with Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods). The librettos by Wagner himself were developed in reverse order, but the music was composed (with a few significant interruptions) in perfor...