Sheet Music for Orchestra

The longest and best known of his four orchestral suites, SUITE NO. 3 in G Major, Op. 55 was written and orchestrated between April and July 1884. Unoriginally uncertain if his new large scale work wo...

LA TRAVIATA (THE FALLEN WOMAN), an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opera was originall...

LA TRAVIATA (THE FALLEN WOMAN), an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opera was originall...

H.M.S. PINAFORE; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic two-act opera and the fourth opera collaboration between composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W. S. Gilbert. Lampooning British social c...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) first set the text of the Magnificat, BWV 243, in 1723 after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but in the key of E-flat. This original version (cataloged...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) first set the text of the Magnificat, BWV 243, in 1723 after taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but in the key of E-flat. This original version (cataloged...

This urtext edition of George Frideric Handel's most famous work, was edited by Arnold Schering and Kurt Soldan. Instrumentation included in the set: 0.2.0.1: 0.2.0.0: Timp: Hpchd.Org: Str (4-4-3-3-3)...

This urtext edition of George Frideric Handel's most famous work, was edited by Arnold Schering and Kurt Soldan. Instrumentation included in the set: 0.2.0.1: 0.2.0.0: Timp: Hpchd.Org: Str (4-4-3-3-3)...

The idea for Totentanz, S. 126 (Dance of the Dead) was conceived by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1838. Two versions were to follow, the first completed in 1853, and the second version finished in 1864....

The idea for Totentanz, S. 126 (Dance of the Dead) was conceived by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1838. Two versions were to follow, the first completed in 1853, and the second version finished in 1864....

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) began work on his version of the traditional hymn, Stabat Mater, in 1831 at the request of one Fernández Varela. As ill health kept Rossini from completing the commission...

The most famous of several Vivaldi works entitled Gloria (RV 589), this edition by Clayton Westermann includes a short preface to explain performance practice. Of the three recorded Glorias Vivaldi wr...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed the concert aria Ah! perfido (Ah! Deceiver), Op. 65 for soprano and orchestra in 1796. Beethoven sets verses by Roman court poet Pietro Metastasio (1729-1782; real name P...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed the concert aria Ah! perfido (Ah! Deceiver), Op. 65 for soprano and orchestra in 1796. Beethoven sets verses by Roman court poet Pietro Metastasio (1729-1782; real name P...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed THE MESSIAH in 1741 - it is widely regarded as his most popular work. In 1789, Baron Gottfried Van Swieten commissioned Mozart to create a modernized versio...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed Songs to Poems by Rueckert (Songs after Rückert; Rückert-Lieder) between 1901 and 1902. They were not conceived of as a cycle, with each song only connected by the p...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed Songs to Poems by Rueckert (Songs after Rückert; Rückert-Lieder) between 1901 and 1902. They were not conceived of as a cycle, with each song only connected by the p...

Tosca is a melodramatic opera in three acts set in Rome in June, 1800, with the Kingdom of Naple's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder...

Tosca is a melodramatic opera in three acts set in Rome in June, 1800, with the Kingdom of Naple's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder...

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...