Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

La production de "L'Opéra de la Lune", initiée par l'Opéra de Dijon, constituera, en ce qui me concerne, une double première : la partition sera la première que j'écrirai expressément pour l'Orchestre...

Une de mes premières pièces pour orchestre s'intitulait "Altitude 8000". J'avais eu, alors, l'occasion de survoler les Alpes un matin d'hiver, entre Paris et Nice, et j'avais été fasciné par le specta...

Quand j'ai proposé le thème de l'Apocalypse pour cette commande de la Cité-Musicale de Metz, je ne pensais pas écrire cette pièce pendant la pandémie du Covid 19 et encore moins pendant le confinement...

Volutes belongs to a cycle of three concertante pieces, the two others being "Phonus" (2004) for flute and orchestra and "Quelques traces dans l'air" (2018) for clarinet and orchestra. ,These three pi...

The Wonder of Life s'inspire du célèbre choral "efiehl du deine Wege" ("Remets à Dieu ta route") de la "Passion saint Matthieu" de Bach. "Ce choral me hante depuis mon enfance : j'y vois une idée de t...

Ecrire un concerto aujourd'huiLa constitution de l'orchestre symphonique a obéi depuis la fin du XVIII siècle d'une part à la structure du système tonal, et d'autre part au développement de la recherc...

Art Spirit was commissioned by Oper Stuttgart for the Staatsorchester Stuttgart under the direction of Cornelius Meister. The title was inspired to me in 2021 by the documentary on David Lynch "The Ar...

Propos de Michael Jarrell recueillis par Stéphane Friederich "Quelle est la genèse de la partition ?" Au départ, je n'avais pas l'idée de composer une oeuvre en six parties plus ou moins brèves. J'ai...

Max Bruch (1838-1920) composed his VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 in 1866, premiering on April 24, 1866, by Otto von Königslow on violin, with Max Bruch conducting. Following, the violin vir...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) composed Nocturnes, L. 91 (also Trois Nocturnes) between 1897 and 1899, although some have speculated that work began as early as 1892 under the title Trois Scènes au Crépus...

The Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163 by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was composed in 1889 at Vysoká u Príbrame, Bohemia, on the occasion of his election to the Bohemian Academy of Science, Lite...

Written by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) in 1868, the Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 is the only concerto completed by Grieg. It remains one of his most popular works and is among the...

This is another LudwigMasters edition 'exclusively endorsed by the International Grainger Society.' Delightfully upbeat and lively, this Grainger classic will lighten up full orchestra concerts and pr...

Published for the first time, this unique and colorful re-orchestration of Grainger's Molly on the Shore was made specifically for conductor Leopold Stokowski. This edition has the added feature of ma...

This is one of the few largely unchanged works from the famous Leopold Stowkowski recording of Grainger's music. It has been prepared from the composer's manuscript score with the approval of the Perc...

This is another LudwigMasters edition 'exclusively endorsed by the International Grainger Society.' Delightfully upbeat and lively, this Grainger classic will lighten up full orchestra concerts and pr...