Advanced Classical Music (Romantic) Sheet Music

When Smetana composed his Piano trio in the autumn of 1855, it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first...

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...

Brahms's First String Sextet became very popular after its publication in 1861, yet his publisher Simrock still hesitated when the composer offered him a second such work in 1865, 'in the same cheerfu...

As with its companion work op. 88 from 1882, Brahms's second string quintet was supposed to be completed in the relaxed atmosphere of a summer in Bad Ischl, but eight years later. The work's first tec...

Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...

Rachmaninov's well-known piano cycle was composed in 1931, at a time when his great works for solo piano and the piano concertos had already brought him great fame. However, this is by no means an 'ol...

Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas were among the 20-year-old composer's first publications. They were written in 1852-53, with the slow movement of this C major Sonata, which uses the song 'Verstohlen g...

Johannes Brahms's Piano Sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53, although the Sonata in f-sharp minor was apparently t...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies stand in the tradition of his transcriptions of operatic or song melodies, yet employ folk dances and songs as their source material. Completed in 1864, Rhapsodie espagnole is...

Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In the course of his editing, Liszt intensified...

A Ball, extract from the 2nd movement of "Symphonie Fantastique" for clarinet quartet, score 14 pages and parts. Listen to the audio sample for an immediate impression of how this arrangement sounds....

For clarinet quartet, score 24 pages and parts. Listen to the audio sample for an immediate impression of how this arrangement sounds. One of Strauss's most popular operettas, it tells a personal vend...

For clarinet quartet, score 6 pages and parts. Listen to the audio sample for an immediate impression of how this arrangement sounds. A staple of the New Year's Concert! Brahms drew inspiration for hi...

For clarinet quartet, score 7 pages and parts. Listen to the audio sample for an immediate impression of how this arrangement sounds. This lively and energetic polka is a perfect example of Strauss's...

The Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is considered one of the most versatile music makers of his time. He wrote symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, tone...

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F" minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

The Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi's Opera "Rigoletto" by Luigi Bassi, arranged for clarinet and wind orchestra by John Glenesk Mortimer, is a brilliant and virtuosic work that brings out the...

The Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi's Opera "Rigoletto" by Luigi Bassi, arranged for clarinet and wind orchestra by John Glenesk Mortimer, is a brilliant and virtuosic work that brings out the...

> Based on the Urtext of the New Schubert Edition > First scholarly-critical performing edition of the Fantasy in C minor (D 2 E) > Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng) > Includes an informative fo...

Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

> Urtext edition with new readings > Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng) > With historically informed fingering and practical page-turns > Informative Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Comm...