Universal Edition Sheet Music

Clear the stage for the children! - Playing music together is fun! Good ensemble-playing, however, must be learned at an early age. This series has been designed to support those music teachers who wa...

'Ukuaru valss' was originally composed for the Estonian movie 'Ukuaru' in 1973. After revising the original version for piano in 2010 (UE34746), this short and lively waltz is now also available for a...

Arranging the three gamba sonatas BWV 1027 - 1029 for flute and obbligato harpsichord or piano may at first seem rather daring. The three-octave range of the viola da gamba (B - e flat2) that Bach use...

This concertina piece was written for the 1973 Leida Laius film Ukuaru, in which Aksel (Lembit Ulfsak) enchants Minna (Elle Kull) by playing the waltz, which then becomes a powerful and lasting artist...

The Berlin Mass is intended to be sung liturgically during Pentecost, and includes the Veni Sancte Spiritus specific to that service. The gently unfolding repetition deliberately avoids dramatic and p...

In 1915, when Kodály wrote a substantial Sonata for Solo Cello, Bartók commented: This is not a mere imitation of Bach's polyphonic style. That was praise in several ways. His friend's sonata had noth...

Enjoy hours of playing with this wonderful collection of 50 pieces of festive music from around the world. There are settings of both sacred and secular works. Music is such an important part of celeb...

Robert de Visée, musician at the court of Louis XIV is well-known to players of the guitar because of the music he wrote for this instrument. Nevertheless comparatively few of his works have been publ...

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' are undoubtedly among the most popular works of Bartók. The earliest version is for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918; arrangements for many other...

A violinist and a cellist having fun together! Whoever heard of such a thing? But that is exactly what Alexey Igudesman has provided for in his 'Violin & Violoncello and More'. He has responded to...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

After careful study of the original scores, Lidia Baich and Matthias Fletzberger have managed to capture the colorful and diverse sound of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with only two instruments. Both...

Pärt's emotionally-charged Bogoróditse Djévo, is a vibrant tribute to the Virgin Mary which is sung in the traditional Orthodox Church Slavic language and alludes to traditional Orthodox compositional...

Arvo Pärt wrote the prayer of peace Da pacem Domine to fulfil a commission from Jordi Savall. He began to set this ninth-century Gregorian antiphon two days after the Madrid bombings on 11 March 2004...

These exercises are written to improve finger, articulation and breathing technique as well as to increase in speed. They can be used on treble recorders with either German or English fingerings. As d...

Ragtime, Swing, Blues, Latin, Jazz Waltz, Ballad, Rock, Folk, Charleston & Showtime This bumper anthology of James Rae's best for alto saxophone is a great resource. > Listen to James Rae's own perfor...

Clear the stage for the children! - Playing music together is fun! Good ensemble-playing, however, must be learned at an early age. This series has been designed to support those music teachers who wa...

The basic musical material of Pari intervallo by Arvo Pärt consists of two parts which move exactly parallel to each other, so that the interval between them is always the same- hence the title. Pari...

Latin-Feeling hoch zwei - Lateinamerikanische Musik arrangiert für 2 Klarinetten Cha Cha, Rumba und Bossa nicht nur für Profis. Hier kommen auch mäßig Fortgeschrittene musikalisch auf ihre Kosten. Ein...

This little set of pieces was composed for Mark Walton, the much respected New Zealand-born clarinettist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator. Mark and his piano accompanist David Miller were...

Anyone who thinks that practicing scales and triads is never more than a compulsory exercise doesn't know "Groove Connection". The tried-and-tested concept offers an immersive musical workout for play...

The text of Dopo la Vittoria comes from the encyclopaedia A Historical Survey of Ecclesiastical Singers and Songs (author of the encyclopaedia: Archbishop Philaret, published in St. Petersburg in 1902...

On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Universal Edition, a special choral highlight will be released: choral works from 125 years of Universal Edition for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella. The albu...

Vester's famous collection of 125 easy classical studies is an ideal introduction to the stylistic aspects of music from the 17th - 20th century. Selected from the works of famous flautists such as De...