Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

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....

The German Requiem by Johannes Brahms was composed in 1866. The first complete performance of the work took place on February 18, 1869, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, after individual movements had been h...

Sibelius on the organ today? - More than ever! A look at the history of transcriptions of the famous 'Karelia Suite' reveals something astonishing: when Herbert A. Fricker selected orchestral movement...

CD New Zealand Symphony Orchestr, cond. James Sedares KOCH 3-7191-2H1

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

printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

The Creation appeared in print in several languages and with various publishers, including Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, after exuberantly celebrated first performances in Vienna. For Haydn's oratori...

For soli (ATB), mixed choir and orchestra

This cantata is one of the undisputed highlights of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata oeuvre.

For solos (SATB), mixed choir and orchestra.