Sheet Music for Symphonic Orchestra

Belgium singer, actor, and composer Jacques Brel (1929-1978) wrote the music and lyrics for Ne me quitte pas (If You Go Away) in 1959. The song was later adapted with English lyrics by Rod McKuen, and...

The 1962 song TI GUARDERÓ NEL CUORE, known internationally by the title MORE, was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero for the Italian documentary film MONDO CANE. Winning the Grammy Award for Be...

The 1962 song TI GUARDERÓ NEL CUORE, known internationally by the title MORE, was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero for the Italian documentary film MONDO CANE. Winning the Grammy Award for Be...

SEID UMSCHLUNGEN, MILLIONEN (BE EMBRACED, YOU MILLIONS), OP. 443, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1892. It was originally requested for a journalists' ball by his friend Julius Stettenheim...

SEID UMSCHLUNGEN, MILLIONEN (BE EMBRACED, YOU MILLIONS), OP. 443, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1892. It was originally requested for a journalists' ball by his friend Julius Stettenheim...

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS INTERMEZZO (TAUSEND UN EINE NACHT INTERMEZZO) is named after the opera INDIGO UN DIE VIERTZIG RAEUBER (INDIGO AND THE FORTY THIEVES) by Johann Strauss II. Premiered on February...

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS INTERMEZZO (TAUSEND UN EINE NACHT INTERMEZZO) is named after the opera INDIGO UN DIE VIERTZIG RAEUBER (INDIGO AND THE FORTY THIEVES) by Johann Strauss II. Premiered on February...

Compiled and arranged by Hungarian-born conductor and composer Antal Dorati (1906-1988), LA VIE PARISIENNE: OVERTURE ON THEMES BY OFFENBACH is among the most delightfully charming light works in the o...

Ernst Toch's (1887-1964) CIRCUS: AN OVERTURE, written in 1953 is meant to evoke the atmosphere of a circus and recalls some of the most common types of music heard there. The piece opens and closes wi...

The development of the music that Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote for the orchestral suite, Op. 60, tells a complicated history. Originally, he and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal collaborated...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...

César Franck (1822-1890) wrote his Mass in A Major, Op. 12 in the summer of 1860. It was later revised in 1872, with the then newly composed Panis angelicus replacing the original movement O salutaris...

Six épigraphes antiques was originally written in 1914 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) for piano duo. While the composer himself transcribed the work for solo piano the following year, the first orchest...

Franz Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) CONCERTO FOR CELLO in C, Hob. VIIb: 1 is a rare instance where a masterpiece was lost, in this case for almost 200 years, before being rediscovered. The manuscript was...

Written in 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770 — 1827) O welch ein Leben! Ein ganzes Meer for tenor and ensemble is a setting of the libretto from Austrian composer Ignaz Umlauf's 1778 singspiel...

Written in 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Soll ein Schuh nicht drücken! for soprano and ensemble is a setting of the libretto from Austrian composer Ignaz Umlauf's 1778 singspeil Die schöne...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) began to work on his POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEM OF LOVE AND THE SEA), OP. 19, in 1882. The composer chose two poems written by his friend Maurice Bouchor as source...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) began to work on his POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEM OF LOVE AND THE SEA), OP. 19, in 1882. The composer chose two poems written by his friend Maurice Bouchor as source...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Originally written as a suite for solo piano, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) later orchestrated four movements from Le Tombeau de Couperin in 1919 (Prélude, Forlane, Menuet, and Rigaudon). This orchestral...