Short facts:
Six épigraphes antiques
1914
Claude Debussy
I. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’été
II. Pour un tombeau sans nom
III. Pour que la nuit soit propice
IV. Pour la danseuse aux crotales
V. Pour l’Égyptienne
VI. Pour remercier la pluie du matin
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Popular compositions
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Liszt: Piano Sonata B minor
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4 G major
- Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 C major K. 551, "Jupiter"
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Offenbach: Overture from "La vie parisienne"
- Prokofjew: Symphony No. 5 B-flat major op. 100
- Purcell
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks op. 28
- Verdi
Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker