Baton Music

In 1886 Emile Waldteufel composed "Espana, Waltzes after Emmanuel Chabrier" in which Waldteufel very prominently used parts of Chabrier"s masterpiece "Espana".

Many of Waldteufel's popular waltzes were arrangements of folk themes or themes by other composers. Such is the case with Waldteufel's Op. 191, a set of waltzes based on Paul Lacome's...

Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was an Austrian composer, son of Johann Strauss (Vater) and brother of Johann jr. and Eduard. He wrote 283 opus numbers amongst them waltzes, Polkas, Quadrilles and other...

In 1868 Johann Strauss jr. composed the polka "Freikugeln" (Free-Shooter), opus 326 which commemorated the "3rd German Federal Shooting Contest", which attracted no less than ten thousand entrants...

Composed in 1868, "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" (Tales from the Vienna Woods) was one of six Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss which featured a virtuoso part for zither.

"Kaiser-Walzer", Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) is a waltz composed by Strauss in 1889. The waltz was originally titled "Hand in Hand".

Revueltas composed his score for Chano Urueta's film La noche de los mayas ("The Night of the Mayas") in 1939. It was edited to a concert suite by Ives Limantours some twenty years after the...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841.

With the deepest respect for Bach's genius, Respighi accepted Toscanini's request in 1930 for a transcription of Bach's great Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor. Now, again this work is transcribed,...

German composer Richard Eilenberg completed 350 compositions throughout his life. The best known, however is "Petersburg Sleigh Ride" (Petersburg Schlittenfahrt).