Ludwig Minkus

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Ludwig Minkus aka Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (March 23, 1826 — December 7, 1917), was a composer of ballet music and a violin virtuoso. Born Aloisius Ludwig Minkus in Velké Meziříčí (German: Grossmeseritsch), near Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire, {today the Czech Republic}. He is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as the First ballet composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a post which he occupied from 1871 until its abolition in 1886.

Top songs

  1. Paquita: Variation 5: Allegro non troppo (by Cherepnin)
  2. Don Quixote: Act I: Quiteria And Basilio
  3. Don Quixote: Act I: Quiteria's Variation
  4. Paquita: Variation 5: Allegro Non Troppo
  5. Paquita: Variation 6: Andante
  6. Don Quixote: Act III: Coda
  7. La Bayadere: Variation 1: Andante
  8. La Bayadere: Variation 3: Moderato
  9. Don Quixote: Act III: Quiteria's Variation
  10. Don Quixote: Act III: Quiteria's Variation (The Fan)
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  1. Don Quixote: Act III: Classical Variation II
  2. Don Quixote: Act IV: Basilio's Variation
  3. Don Quixote: Prologue: Allegro
  4. Don Quixote: Act I: Quiteria (Kitri) Enters
  5. Don Quixote: Act IV: Quiteria's Variation
  6. Don Quixote, Act I: Quiteria's Variation
  7. Paquita: Allegro
  8. Paquita: Variation 1: Moderato
  9. La Bayadere: Variation 2: Allegro
  10. Don Quixote: Introduction
  11. Minkus: Don Quixote, Act 3: II. Adage
  12. Paquita: Variation 4: Allegro
  13. Variation 5: Allegro non troppo (by Cherepnin)
  14. Don Quixote: Act I: Coda: Basilio And Quiteria Make Their Escape
  15. Paquita: Variation 2: Tempo di valse (by Pouni)
  16. La bayadère: Variation 1: Andante
  17. Paquita: Variation 7: Allegro
  18. Don Quixote: Prologue: Allegro Assai
  19. Don Quixote: Act I: Espada
  20. Paquita: Variation 9: Allegro moderato
  21. La Bayadere: Variation 4: Allegretto
  22. Don Quixote: Prologue: Entrance Of Don Quixote
  23. Don Quixote: Act I: A Square In Barcelona
  24. Paquita: Variation 2: Moderato
  25. Don Quixote: Act II: Gypsy Dance II
  26. Paquita: Variation 8: Allegro
  27. Don Quixote: Act II: Amour
  28. Don Quixote: Act I: Seguidilla
  29. La Bayadere: Coda: Allegro
  30. La Bayadere: Variation 5: Allegro
  31. Don Quixote: Prologue: Sancho Panza, saved from his pursuers, is appointed Don Quixote's squire
  32. La Bayadere: Moderato
  33. Paquita: Coda: Allegro con fuoco
  34. Don Quixote: Act I: Moreno
  35. Paquita: Adagio
  36. La Bayadere: Allegretto
  37. Don Quixote: Act I: Street Dancer And Toreador
  38. La bayadère: Variation 3: Moderato
  39. Don Quixote: Act IV: Coda
  40. Don Quixote: Act I: Scene Of The Toreadors
  41. Don Quixote: Act II: Quiteria's Variation As Dulcinea
  42. Paquita: Variation 3: Tempo di valse - Moderato
  43. Don Quixote: Act I: Coda
  44. Don Quixote: Act I: Street Dancer
  45. Don Quixote: Act I, Scene: Lorenzo, Quiteria And Basilio
  46. Don Quixote: Act III: Basilio's Variation
  47. Don Quixote: Act II: Coda
  48. Don Quixote: Act II: Quiteria And Basilio
  49. Paquita: Coda. Allegro con fuoco
  50. Don Quixote: Act I: Sancho And The Girls
  51. Don Quixote: Act I: Their Friends
  52. Don Quixote, Act IV: Quiteria's Variation
  53. Quiteria and Basilio
  54. Paquita: Polonaise and Mazurka
  55. Paquita: Coda: Allegro moderato
  56. Don Quixote: Act I: Camacho Enters
  57. Don Quixote: Act II: Souvenir Du Bal
  58. Don Quixote: Act I: Basilio With Friends
  59. Don Quixote: Act II: Gypsy Dance I
  60. Don Quixote: Act II: The Queen Of The Dryads
  61. Don Quixote: Act I: Moderato
  62. Don Quixote: Act II: Sola A Gitana
  63. Don Quixote, Act I: Quiteria and Basilio
  64. Don Quixote: Act III: Flower Waltz
  65. Don Quixote: Act I: Don Quixote Invites Quiteria To A Minuet
  66. La Bayadere: Allegro
  67. Don Quixote: Act III: Classical Variation I
  68. Don Quixote: Act I: Don Quixote And Sancho Panza
  69. Don Quixote: Act II: Spanish Dance
  70. Paquita: Variation 3: Moderato
  71. Paquita: Variation 1: Tempo di valse (by Delibes)
  72. Don Quixote: Act III: Entree
  73. Don Quixote: Act II: Sailor's Dance
  74. Don Quixote: Act II: Carmencita
  75. Don Quixote: Act II: He Dreams Of Dulcinea
  76. Don Quixote: Act II: Windmill
  77. Quiteria's Variation
  78. Don Quixote: Act III: Amour
  79. Don Quixote: Act II: Scene
  80. Paquita: Pas de trois: Allegro
  81. Variation 6: Andante
  82. Don Quixote: Act II: Giga
  83. Don Quixote: Act II: Allegretto
  84. Don Quixote: Act IV: Quiteria's Variation (The Fan)
  85. La Bayadere: Andante
  86. Don Quixote: Act II: Don Quixote Sleeps
  87. Don Quixote: Act III: Variation: Dryad's mistresses (Souvenir du Ball)
  88. Don Quixote: Act III: Dryads' Variation
  89. Don Quixote: Act III: Finale: Spanish Dance
  90. Don Quixote, Act IV: Coda

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