Sheet Music for Instruments

Musical Friends presents a set of three piano duets dedicated to friends of the composer. Duke Ellington once said, "I don't write music for the piece of brass in front of the cat; I write music for t...

Musical Friends presents a set of three piano duets dedicated to friends of the composer. Duke Ellington once said, "I don't write music for the piece of brass in front of the cat; I write music for t...

One or the Other for Piano: Presents pieces in pairs: each pair are related in some way. Some are opposites and others complimentary. This starting point allows students to identify with one or the ot...

One or the Other for Piano: Presents pieces in pairs: each pair are related in some way. Some are opposites and others complimentary. This starting point allows students to identify with one or the ot...

Bach's five most playable two and three part inventions. Originally intended to be played by Bach's children on the Clavier, these pieces have since been adopted the world over as an indespensible com...

Few composers could capture such tenderness and introspection as Brahms. The Intermezzi from Eight Klavierstücke, Op. 76 are miniature masterpieces, blending noble melodies, rich harmonies and moments...

Few composers have written for the piano with greater poetry and elegance than Frédéric Chopin. His Nocturnes are among the most cherished works in the piano repertoire, renowned for their singing mel...

Muzio Clementi's Sonatinas for piano were among the earliest keyboard works to embrace the expressive possibilities of the newly emerging pianoforte, rather than the harpsichord. Their graceful melodi...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is rightly celebrated as one of the great architects of the Classical style. During a remarkably long and productive career, he composed over sixty piano sonatas, works...

The seven miniatures in this volume have been carefully selected and sympathetically simplified to provide an accessible introduction to Mendelssohn's piano music. As with all titles in the Simplest S...

The Viennese composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) learned to play the piano, violin and viola as a boy, even performing the viola in the family string quartet. Although he lived for just thirty-one yea...

Beowulf is an epic 5th century poem, written in old English. A heroic warrior called Beowulf helps neighbouring Danish King Hrothgar to rid his meadhall of a monster called Grendel. This music was wri...

Beowulf is an epic 5th century poem, written in old English. A heroic warrior called Beowulf helps neighbouring Danish King Hrothgar to rid his meadhall of a monster called Grendel. This music was wri...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was composed principally between 1804 and 1808 and received its first performance in Vienna in December 1808. With its unforgettable four-note opening and compelling journey...

Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor was composed during the summer of 1788 and is one of only two symphonies Mozart wrote in a minor key. Its urgent opening, graceful melodies and moments of dramatic...

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, known as the Pathétique, was completed in 1893 and first performed in Saint Petersburg with Tchaikovsky himself conducting. Its four movements encompass passio...

Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major was composed during the summer of 1883 and first performed in Vienna later that year. Although it is the shortest of Brahms's four symphonies, it encompasses a remarka...

The Symphonie fantastique was composed in 1830 and first performed in Paris later that year. Its five movements tell the feverish story of a young artist haunted by an idealised vision of his beloved,...

Dvořák's Symphony No. 8 in G major was composed in 1889 and first performed in Prague the following year, conducted by Dvořák himself. Warm, joyful and full of invention, the symphony evokes the natur...

Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major was composed principally between 1887 and 1888 and first performed in Budapest in 1889. Sometimes known as the Titan, it takes the listener on a remarkable journey f...