Sheet Music for Orchestra

Joseph Haydn's La Canterina ('The Singing Girl') was one of the composer's earliest stage works, written in 1766 soon after Prince Nikolaus Esterházy had promoted him to first Kapellmeister. The libre...

Alcalay, herself an accomplished pianist, here combines virtuosic pianism with masterful colouristic orchestration.

Preface Composed in the mid-1860s during one of many frustrating points in the young composer's life, Pytor Tchaikovsky's TH 38 (Overture in C minor), never performed during his lifetime, is a testame...

Preface "At Tordenskjold's in Holmen's Church," "From David's Psalm 103 (or 16)," "From David's Psalm 103," "Danish Pictures," "Danish Cities," "Fanfare Symphony," "Dannebrogklänge" - there were many...

Preface Granville Bantock was a composer caught between two musical cultures. The son of a prominent London surgeon, Bantock studied at the Royal Academy of Music while Tchaikovsky was still a rising...

Preface The Romanian composer George Enescu was the only surviving child of his parents, who had lost several children as stillbirths or through illness. His father, Costache Enescu, worked as an admi...

Preface The music of Joachim Raff' has enjoyed a small renaissance in the last 20 years. For a long time, the once-famous musician was almost forgotten. When Pyotr Tchaikovsky attended the Bayreuth Fe...

Preface Arnold Bax was born and brought up in London in a wealthy and cultivated family. Showing early showed talent in music, he studied at the Royal Academy in London and in Dresden, where he first...

Preface Willem Pijper was a Dutch composer, music journalist, and teacher who rose from a humble background to become a central figure of musical life in the Netherlands. Along with his contemporary M...

Preface Historians of American music have identified two New England Schools of music, though this terminology refers to historical movements, not formal arrangements. John Knowles Paine is considered...

Premiere 18 March 1910 in Vienna Musikverein, Tonkünstler Orchester; Franz Schreker, conductor First publication of the orchestral score The third movement was engraved, and the other movements remain...

ICB 19 (1888, rev. 1919) First edition published Margault [same imprint as Édition mutuelle], Paris, France, 1902 Orchestration solo piano with 2 flutes, piccolo, oboe, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons,...

Excerpted from La habanera: Drame lyrique en trois actes (poème et musique de R. Laparra) Dedication: À Monsieur et Madame Albert Carré. Albert Carré (1852-1938) and Marguerite Giraud-Carré (1880-1947...

Foreword In Norway, it is called Fossegrim, in Sweden Strömkarlen or Näcken, and in Germany this legendary creature is known as Nöck: we are talking about a spirit or troll that lives in waterfalls, e...

COMMENTARY After the roaring success of Periodical Overture No. 20, it is no wonder that Robert Bremner (c.1713-1789) wanted to continue publishing works by Niccolò Piccinni (Piccini) (1728-1800). In...

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

With the publication of the critical commentary this edition of the 6th Symphony is now complete. It provides detailed information about the circumstances in which the work was written, documentation...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...

The aim of the edition is to present the composer's enormous legacy as it is known today, as exhaustively as possible. Every musical text published in this edition is an outcome of the comprehensive a...

Henry Purcell's only Opera proper, Dido and Aeneas is a magnificent example of English Baroque music, with lively dances and passionate aria sections that demonstrate Purcell's masterful compositional...