Classical Music Collection (#30)

Iskander, costume design for the ballet La Peri (music by Paul Dukas), c1913. Artist: Leon Bakst
Iskander, costume design for the ballet La Peri (music by Paul Dukas), c1913. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

Two Bacchantes, costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Tcherepnins Narcisse, 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Two Bacchantes, costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Tcherepnins Narcisse, 1911. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

Ephebe, costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Tcherepnins Narcisse, 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Ephebe (adolescent), costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Tcherepnins Narcisse, 1911. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

Decor for Debussys ballet L Apres-midi d un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun), 1912. Artist: Leon Bakst
Decor for Debussys ballet L Apres-midi d un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun), 1912. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

Set design for a Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God), 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Set design for a Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God), 1911. Story by Jean Cocteau and Frederigo de Madrazo, Music by Reynaldo Hahn. Publised in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst

Eunuch costume design for the ballet Scheherazade, 1910. Artist: Leon Bakst
Eunuch costume design for the ballet Scheherazade, 1910. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

Bayadere costume design for Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God), 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Danse sacree, costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God), 1911. Story by Jean Cocteau and Frederigo de Madrazo, Music by Reynaldo Hahn

Beotien, costume design a Ballets Russes production of Narcisse, music by Tcherepnin, 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Beotien, costume design for the Ballets Russes production of Narcisse, music by Tcherepnin, 1911. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From a private collection

The Firebird, costume for The Firebird, the ballet by lgor Stravinsky, 1910. Artist: Leon Bakst
The Firebird, costume for The Firebird, the ballet by lgor Stravinsky, 1910. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913). From the Museum of Metropolitan Art, New York, USA

The Sleeping Beauty Wolf, 1921. Artist: Leon Bakst
The Sleeping Beauty Wolf, 1921. Ballet costume design

Chloe Abandoned, design for a Ballet Russes production of Ravels Daphnis and Chloe, 1910-1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Chloe Abandoned, design for a Ballet Russes production of Ravels Daphnis and Chloe, 1910-1911. From the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

Portrait of the ballet dancer and patron Ida Rubinstein, 1921. Artist: Leon Bakst
Portrait of the ballet dancer and patron Ida Rubinstein, 1921. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Estrella, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. Artist: Leon Bakst
Estrella, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. From the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Florestan, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. Artist: Leon Bakst
Florestan, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. From the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Chiarina, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. Artist: Leon Bakst
Chiarina, design for a costume for the ballet Carnival composed by Robert Schumann, 1919. From the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

The Tsarevna, costume design for the Ballets Russes production of Stravinskys The Firebird, 1910. Artist: Leon Bakst
The Tsarevna, costume design for the Ballets Russes production of Stravinskys The Firebird, 1910. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913)

Set Design for Act I of Helen of Sparta, performed by Ida Rubensteins ballet troupe, 1912. Artist: Leon Bakst
Set Design for Act I of Helen of Sparta, performed by Ida Rubensteins ballet troupe, 1912. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913)

Page de la fee des Canaris, costume design for Tchaikovskys ballet Sleeping Beauty, 1921. Artist: Leon Bakst
Page de la fee des Canaris, costume design for Tchaikovskys ballet Sleeping Beauty, 1921. From the Galleria del Levante, Milan

Peri (Natasha Trouhanova), costume design for La Peri (music by Paul Dukas), 1911. Artist: Leon Bakst
Peri (Natasha Trouhanova), costume design for the ballet La Peri (music by Paul Dukas), 1911. Published in L Art Decoratif de Leon Bakst. (Paris, 1913)

Battista, costume design for a comedy by Carol Goldoni, 1917. Artist: Leon Bakst
Battista, costume design for a comedy by Carol Goldoni, 1917. From the Evergreen House Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Costume design for the ballet Les Papillons, 1912. Artist: Leon Bakst
Costume design for the ballet Les Papillons, 1912. From a private collection

Costume design for a ballet by Igor Stravinsky, 1913. Artist: Leon Bakst
Costume design for a ballet by Igor Stravinsky, 1913

Set design for Mozarts The Magic Flute, 1863. The Magic Flute ( Die Zauberflote ), the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1759 (1906). Mozarts (1756-1791) first attempt, at the age of three, to play the piano. In the doorway his sister Nannerl and his father Leopold look

Set design for Mozarts Don Giovanni, 1875
Design for Mozarts Don Giovanni, 1875. Don Giovannis Banqueting Hall from a design of 1875 for the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer, first performed in Prague in 1787

Mozart at the age of seven in front of Empress Maria Theresa, 1763. (1906). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) playing his violin in front of the Empress of Austria

Scene from Mozarts opera The Marriage of Figaro, 1786 (1905). The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), comic opera (opera buffa) with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) after Beaumarchais

Stage design for the opera The Tsars Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1920. Artist: Boris Mikhajlovich Kustodiev
Stage design for the opera The Tsars Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1920. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Samara, Russia

Eduard Artemyev, Russian composer, 1984. Artemyev (19370-) is a composer of electronic music and film scores. He composed the scores for the films Solaris (1972)

Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, singer Maria Maksakova and writer Aleksey Tolstoy, 1943
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), singer Maria Maksakova (1902-1974) and writer Aleksey Tolstoy, 1943. Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Composers Nikolai Myaskovsky and Aram Khachaturian, 1933. Khachaturian (1903-1978) studied composition under Myaskovsky (1881-1950) at the Moscow Conservatory between 1929 and 1934

Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer, 1960s. Khachaturian (1903-1978) conducting. Found in the collection of The State Conservatory, Moscow

Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, late 19th century. Artist: Sergei Levitsky
Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, late 19th century. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) wrote music across a broad range of genres

Edward Elgar, English composer, 1912. Born at Broadheath near Worcester, Elgar (1857-1934) was appointed Master of the Kings Musick in 1924

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), Italian tenor. Caruso in the costume of Canio, the clown, a character in the Leoncavallo opera I Pagliacci

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer. One of the most famous classical music composers, Beethovens work represents a bridge between Classical and Romantic styles. Contemporary sketches

Michael William Balfe, Irish-born British composer and singer, 1870. A prolific operatic composer, Balfe (1808-1870) is best remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl (1843)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American composer
Aaron Copland, (1900-1990) American composer

George Frideric Handel, (1685-1759), German composer, c1750s. Artist: Thomas Hudson
George Frideric Handel, (1685-1759), German composer, c1750s. Baroque composer Handel lived much of his life in England, where he composed his masterpiece, Messiah

Johann Sebastian Bachs house, Leipzig, Germany, c1890. German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is considered by many to be the greatest composer in the history of western

The Deathbed of Mozart, 1791 (late 19th century). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer, on his deathbed surrounded by his wife and friends

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 18th century Austrian composer, 1819. Artist: John Chapman
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 18th century Austrian composer, 1819. From Encyclopaedia Londinensis Vol. XVI. (London, 1819)

The house in which Mozart lived in Salzburg, Austria, late 18th century (c1890). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer

Mozart Wins the Heart of Royalty c1763 (early 20th century). Artist: C Dudley Tennant
Mozart Wins the Heart of Royalty c1763 (early 20th century). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) at the age of seven playing his violin in front of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband

Giuseppe Verdi, 19th century Italian composer, 1914. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) is best remembered for his operas written between 1839 and 1893

Women with a harpsichord. Colored engraving, 1895

Mucius Scaevola
Captured by Etruscans after abortive assassination bid, Gaius Mucius burns off his right hand as a sign of his determination to kill Lars Porsena, earns name Scaevola

Black and white digital illustration of classical guitar

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