Kalmus Oversized Score Library

This Preludio Sinfonico in A (S.32) has often been confused with Giacomo Pucccini's (1858-1924) Preludio a Orchestra (S.1), composed when he was a teenager. The Preludio Sinfonico was composed as part...

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the summ...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano as a musical depiction of a tour through an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartman. The most commonly...

Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906) wrote VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF TCHAIKOVSKY, Op. 35a in 1894, a year after Tchaikovsky's death, as a tribute to the master composer who most influenced his own mus...

The GROSSE FUGE (Great Fugue) remains the most controversial work by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), with it considered incomprehensible by his contemporaries, though the critical opinion of the wor...

Subtitled "Suite in olden style," this five-movement suite was written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dano-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg. Each movement is based on 1...

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) composed his Two Norwegian Airs (Two Nordic Melodies; Zwei Nordische Weisen), Op. 63 in 1895. The first movement, an at-times melancholy and warm orchestration called I folket...

Asger Hamerik (1843-1923) was a Danish composer during the late Romantic period. Considered during his lifetime the best-known Danish composer after Niels Gade, he studied with Hans von Bülow and Hect...

Josef Suk composed the Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 6 at the suggestion of his teacher, Antonín Dvorák, who recommended that the pupil broaden the emotional content of his compositions and write...

The premiere of P. I. Tchaikovsky's (1840-1893) Serenade in C, Op. 48, was conducted by the composer himself in Saint Petersburg on February 8, 1908. This string orchestra work's score is dedicated to...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) composed his FIFTH SYMPHONY between 1901 and 1902, a time during which he found great success in his conducting career, and met and married Alma Schindler, who by the summer...

OTELLO marked Giuseppe Verdi's return to composing following his first retirement after writing AIDA. This retelling of Shakespeare's classic revenge tale was originally titled IAGO, after the Moorish...

Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 three act opera with a libretto by Antonio Somma. Initially based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera Gustave III, ou Le...

Performed in the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) opera, LA TRAVIATA, this famous duet is sung by the characters Violetta and Alfredo Germont, the young man who loves her, at a late-night par...

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...

SUITE CONCERTANTE was originally written for an orchestra of eight celli and double bass, and the work was premiered on April 19th, 1970 in this form. Some years later, Alfred Reed re-scored the secon...

Originally composed in 1922 for string quartet, ANDANTE FESTIVO was arranged by Jean Sibelius for string orchestra and timpani in 1938 when New York Times critic Olin Downes requested him to "conduct...

This charming six movement suite is one of Janácek's early works and, unlike his later output, is devoid of large mood swings, instead reflecting a more Victorian mood with its gentility and lightness...

This is the tenth among thirteen string symphonies written between 1821 and 1823, when Mendelssohn was twelve to fourteen years old. Like the other twelve, it was written as a tribute to early Classic...

EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK (A Little Night Music, Serenade No. 13 in G Major) was written in 1787 for string quintet, although it is frequently performed as a string orchestra work. Possibly composed orig...

The String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70, is scored for 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos, was composed in the summer of 1890. Tchaikovsky dedicated the work to the St. Petersburg Chamber Music Society in...

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...

Sergei Prokofiev began work on Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, completing the piece on September 10, 1917. The symphony was premiered on April 21, 1918 in Petr...

Completed in 1922, Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) inspiration for his PASTORAL SYMPHONY (SYMPHONY No. 3) came during World War I after hearing a bugler practicing and accidentally playing an inte...