John Corigliano

Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.

Composer's Note My Etude Fantasy is actually a set of five studies combined into the episodic form and character of a fantasty. The material in the studies is related most obviously by the interval of...

One Piano, Four Hands.

Orchestral reduction and solo part arranged by Corigliano for Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform.

Composer's NoteFantasia On An Ostinato is based on a famous repetitive passage by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony No. 7, second movement). That music is unique in Beethoven's output because of a relent...

Fanfares to Music was commissioned by the Lincoln Center and first performed in 1993. Antiphon was written for the dedication of the new Apex field house in New York in 1994. For Double Brass Quintet.

For flute and orchestra (Piano Reduction). A musical interpretation of the Pied Piper legend first performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with James Galway, soloist, under the direction of Myung-Wh...

For flute and string quartet. Arranged here for flute and harp reduction.

For clarinet and orchestra (piano reduction).

While Promenade Overture can be performed with the orchestra seated throughout, in traditional fashion, it is engineered to allow the players to enter playing, building the orchestra from an almost em...

From the composer: Soliloquy was written in memory of my father, who died on September 1, 1975. He had been a concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, and I still find it hard to think...

Aria for Oboe and Strings may be performed in either two versions: with string orchestra or with string quintet. The materials provided here include footnotes indicating how the piece should be perfor...

John Corigliano's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin) draws upon music he composed for the film of the same name, which won an Academy Award for best film score. The story spans three c...

This work, although dedicated to his parents, was much despised by Corigliano's father. In fact his father discouraged any attempts at composition. This work, composed in 1963, augurs much to come in...

This string quartet was inspired by a photo of Corigliano's father playing a violin and his uncle playing the guitar. It was commissioned by the Elements String Quartet and premiered in November 2003...

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

This 35-minute work is in five movements which bears a resemblance to the arch-form principales of Bartok's fourth quartet. The quartet is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single t...

This piece for unaccompanied cello solo transforms the gentle arches of Bach's theme into slowly soaring arpeggi of almost unending phrase lengths. It was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma in Boston in 1997 in me...

Based on themes from The Ghosts of Versialles. Thoroughout the work Phantasmagoria, the ghost floats in and out, binding the 3 sections of the piece together: 1. The world of eternity - 2. The world o...

For flute and orchestra (Piano Reduction). A musical interpretation of the Pied Piper legend first performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with James Galway, soloist, under the direction of Myung-Wh...

For flute and string orchestra (piano reduction). A welcome change from the usual flute writing, one that sets new records for the greatest number of notes played in one minute. John Corigliano captur...