Sheet Music for Chamber Orchestra

Written in 1891 as Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was considering Jeannette Thurber's generous offer to move to the United States and serve as director of her National Conservatory of Music in New York, C...

The first performance of I VESPRI SICILIANI (THE SICILIAN VESPERS), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Written between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano No. 2 remains one of the composer's most enduringly popular pieces and cemented his reputation as composer o...

Originally written by Debussy for piano four hands, PETITE SUITE has been transcribed many times, with this orchestral version by Henri Büsser being the most well-known. Perhaps due to a request from...

Saint-Saens' Le Carnaval des Animaux hat eine eigenartige Geschichte. Es dürfte vielleicht der einzige Fall sein, dass ein Komponist ein Werk nach wenigen Aufführungen zurückzog (abgesehen von einem k...

Musorgskij's music was slow to be recognized outside of Russia for its masterly and forward-looking qualities. To this day his compositions are heard largely in arrangements; many are still quite unkn...

Musorgskij's music was slow to be recognized outside of Russia for its masterly and forward-looking qualities. To this day his compositions are heard largely in arrangements; many are still quite unkn...

Composer's note When I visited my homeland of Taiwan in the winter of 2016, I received a telephone call from the Ensemble Kontrapunkte of Vienna asking me to tell it immediately what the title of the...

Preface Joseph Achron is one of those early 20th-century composers whose work draws on the tension between virtuoso instrumental tradition, modern musical language and cultural identity. As a student...

The piece was composed in 2012 as musical comment on a succession of images and, according to the composer's statements, to get young people close to a guided listening of music. The captions in the s...