Sheet Music for Orchestra

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

Gustav Mahler composed many large-scale works. But in the summer of 1906, he surpassed himself with the "Symphony No. 8". He himself described this exceptional work in terms of form, shape, size and s...

Of Dittersdorf's 19 surviving masses, the present work (first edition by Carus) enjoyed particular popularity during the composer's lifetime, including a performance at the imperial coronation of Fran...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

A sacrilege or a stroke of genius? The composer and music director Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) orchestrated the first movement of the famous 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven (transposed to C mi...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

Johann Sebastian Bach's librettist Salomon Franck called the congratulatory music for the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, which is generally known today as the "Hunting Cantata" BWV 208, "Frohlockender Göt...

Goethes dramatische Ballade "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" inspirierte Mendelssohn zu einer großartigen und plastischen Darstellung des Konfliktes zwischen einer alten heidnischen Gemeinschaft und den neu...

Goethe's dramatic ballad "The First Walpurgis Night" inspired Mendelssohn to create a magnificent and vivid depiction of the conflict between an old pagan community and the new aspirations of Christia...

If you are looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work with rewarding tasks for your choir, then Rheinberger's "Star of Bethlehem" is the right choice. In nine scenes (Expectation, The Shepherds, Appa...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Der Carus-Urtextausgabe liegt als Hauptquelle der Partitur-Erstdruck von 1800 zu Grunde. Haydn hatte ihn entgegen seinen sonstigen Gepflogenheiten im Eigenverlag erscheinen lassen, um unautorisierte V...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...