Sheet Music for Orchestra

Created in cooperation with G. Henle Verlag Composed by Manuel de Falla during his lengthy residence in Paris, these three symphonic impressions for piano and orchestra are an expressive work bringing...

Thanks to its imaginative richness and sterling writing, Hoffmeister's Double Bass Concerto No. 1 has advanced to the rank of a popular audition concerto. But when compared with the transmitted source...

The Urtext edition of what is arguably the most often played double-bass work of all was long overdue. The work was previously available only in an abridged and arranged form. The edition departs from...

Just like Joseph Haydn's E flat major concerto Hob VIIe:1 (1796), Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E major of 1803 was also written for the Viennese soloist Anton Weidinger, who performed on a keyed trump...

Neben dem Widmungsträger Pablo de Sarasate, nahmen viele namhafte Geiger wie Eugène Ysaye und später Jacques Thibaud das Konzertstück, das Camille Saint-Saëns 1863 komponiert hatte, in ihr Repertoire...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns’ concert piece composed in 1...

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime...

In the fall of 1909, Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest experiences of my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'! It turned out that these were plans for the Fourth Symphony. The comp...

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The alternating judgments - 'worthless, completely unplayable' (according to Nikolai Rubinstein, to whom Tchaikovsky had actually intended his B-flat minor concerto) and 'magnificent' or 'ravishing' (...

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms-Gesamtausgabe of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna EB 6043 is printed in score ; for performance two copies are needed

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Johannes Brahms composed the Tragic Overture op. 81 in the summer of 1880 in Ischl, and the work was premiered that same year on December 26 under the baton of Hans Richter at the Vienna Musikverein....

Johannes Brahms composed the present work in the summer months of 1878 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee - originally in four movements, before he wrote self-deprecatingly to his friend Joseph Joachim: 'The...

The premiere took place on October 18, 1887, at the Gürzenich in Cologne, conducted by the composer. Parallel to the work on the orchestral score, the piano version had also been written, with which B...

Viewed closely, Lemminkäinen op. 22 could well be called the 'zeroth' Sibelius symphony, for the early versions of these four tone poems date back to 1895/96, i.e. to the time before the 1st symphony....