“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...
The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only the first of six pomp and circumstance marches written by Edward Elgar.