Advanced Classical Music (Romantic) Sheet Music

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

1. Andante molto 2. Allegretto 3. Leidenschaftlich schnell Original für Violine

These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his 'Wagner transcriptions' had 'only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meagre pos...

There are many composers of whom it is said today that they had gone back in time or had composed against contemporary taste. Today, the question arises, though, as to what of value is to be extracted...

There are many composers of whom it is said today that they had gone back in time or had composed against contemporary taste. Today, the question arises, though, as to what of value is to be extracted...

Julian Bream: Albéniz Guitar Collection comprises 10 superb transcriptions by renowned guitarist Julian Bream of the piano repertoire of Isaac Albéniz. These works are infused with the sounds and colo...

Chopin’s name is forevermore connected with the piano. He was a fabulous pianist, improviser, and, of course, composer with a very unique, personal style that is characterized by a sense of rubato, al...

Nach dem bei Friedrich Hofmeister 1831 erschienen Erstdruck in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Robert-Schumann-Haus neu herausgegeben. Durch Abfolge der Tonarten und Charaktere der einzelnen Stücke wird deutli...

Chopin's Piano Concertos first saw the light of day around 1829/1830 and thus represent the culmination and termination of his student years in Warsaw. Both concertos are early masterpieces with which...

Brahms' cello sonatas are probably amongst the most beautiful that has ever been written for this instrument. The publication of the two works in the new Brahms Complete Edition has prompted us to pub...

This rousing Polonaise, which is preceded by a nocturne-like Andante, was originally a work for piano and orchestra. It was written at the same time as Chopin's two piano concertos in e minor and f mi...

Louis Spohr's concertos have long been a standard feature in the clarinet repertoire, but up to now they have suffered due to a lack of reliable editions. In order to fill this gap, G. Henle Publisher...

Antonín Dvorák composed his penultimate and most well-known opera “Rusalka” in just seven months between April and November 1900. The premiere took place on 31 March 1901 at the National Theatre in Pr...

Brahms' vivacious 'Rhapsodies' op. 79 of 1879 are among his most frequently played works. He had a hard time finding a suitable title for them, vacillating between 'Piano Piece', 'Capriccio' (No. 1) a...

The piano cycle 'The Year” - quite an obvious subject but still without example in the history of music when it was composed in 1841 - was published for the first time in 1989 and is probably Fanny He...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungari...

Chopin left behind only a few works in the main form of the classical era, the sonata - of these, the Piano Sonata op. 58 certainly numbers among his most important. Formally, it is more conventionall...

This work, composed in 1878/79, alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence, and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was par...

Very few really important works have been written for piano quintet - alongside the famous works by Schubert, Schumann und Brahms, the quintet that Antonín Dvorák composed in 1887 certainly numbers am...

Mendelssohn is considered a self-critical composer, who repeatedly reworked a number of his pieces until he deemed them worthy to be published. The path to his first Piano Trio was particularly rocky:...

After the great success of his first Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, some five years passed before Mendelssohn set to work on a new composition for this formation. But then the c-minor Trio came into be...