Edwin F. Kalmus Sheet Music

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

LA BOHÈME (The Bohemian), one of the most beloved and commercially-successful operas, is based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger. With a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G...

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

Spring Song, Op. 16 (Vårsång) was written in 1894 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) and was initially titled Improvisation for Orchestra. Sibelius revised the single-movement tone poem a year later and ret...

Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345/336a was composed between 1773 and 1779 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) as incidental music for a play by Tobias Philipp von Gebler, written in the spirit of En...

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) wrote Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard, Eng.; Blaubart, Ger.) while travelling in 1865. An opéra bouffe in three acts, with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ba...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) composed Overture on Jewish Themes (or Overture on Hebrew Themes), Op. 34, in 1919 for the uncommon combination of clarinet, string quartet, and piano, and this original v...

Originally composed for piano, this orchestration from Lecuona's celebrated Andalucia Suite by Morton Gould is a sure crowd-pleaser! Instrumentation: 2(1st dPicc).2.2.2: 4Sax(AATB): 2.3.2.1: Timp.Perc...

First published and recorded in 1954 (only included at the time on the album "A Leroy Anderson ‘Pops' Concert"), this lovely piano instrumental was released as a UK single in 1957 and hit the charts i...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) wrote the waltz La plus que lente for solo piano in 1910, a work that may or may not have been inspired by a small sculpture on his mantelpiece. The title is meant to wryly...

A five-movement suite originally written by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) for solo piano, MIROIRS ("Mirrors") was written between 1904 and 1905, with each movement dedicated to a fellow member of the Fren...

Written by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) in 1934, this set of variations for piano solo and orchestra on Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 24 for solo violin is much like a concerto, though it consists...

In French, the word "villanelle" implies a rustic song or dance. It was used during the 16th century to describe songs which used simple language and were of a pastoral nature. Orchestrated by Donald...

Best known as the composer of the anthem JERUSALEM, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918), wrote a number of songs for choir and orchestra. One of these, BLEST PAIR OF SIRENS (AT A SOLEMN MUSIC),...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (BE SILENT, WINDS) is a Latin motet by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) The uncertain date of its composition has provoked much debate, although careful study of the work sugge...

Spanish conductor and composer Gerónimo Giménez (1854-1923) was dedicated to writing zarzuelas, the populist Spanish genre of lyric-dramatic one-act operas popular at the end of the 19th century and b...

Andalucia Suite consists of six individual compositions. Included are the immortal Malaguena and the equally beautiful Andalucia, known as the The Breeze and I. Both Malaguena and Andalucia are comple...

Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917) was a Jewish-Austian composer of ballet music, spending most of his career as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. Over th...

The BALLADE in A minor, Op. 33 is an early composition by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) . Written only a year after completing his education at the Royal College of Music, this one-movement work...

A five-movement suite originally written by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) for solo piano, MIROIRS ("Mirrors") was written between 1904 and 1905, with each movement dedicated to a fellow member of the Fren...

Like most of Leroy Anderson's efforts, "Belle of the Ball" is light, effervescent, and devoid of conflict or disharmony. Anderson looked upon the piece as a modern-day American revival -- or revitaliz...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Though Hubay was best known as a violinist, he also distinguished himself as a composer. His FANTAISIE BRILLANTE was written in 1877. Demanding considerable technique, it contains the opera's greatest...

Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma) is a four-movement symphonic poem for orchestra completed in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. The piece, which depicts pine trees in four locations in Rome...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world’s most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...