Advanced Classical Music (Romantic) Sheet Music

Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a 'Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that 'the beloved and talent...

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As an avowed Schubert fan, Franz Liszt also liked to play transcriptions of Schubert’s songs in his piano recitals. He initially had an arrangement of the "Trout" by Stephen Heller in his repertoire,...

Finally, G. Henle Publishers is able to offer one of Rachmaninov's most important, most substantial piano works in a meticulous Urtext edition that does justice to the work and to the editorial diffic...

Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the then 20-year-old composer published. Much of the music of the f-minor Sonata is closely connected to Brahms's visit...

A secret engagement, a composer as prospective father-in-law and several rival publishing houses - it was against this backdrop that the work was composed. His youthful and passionate love for Ernesti...

We know that Brahms took an active interest in Baroque music throughout his life. It can thus hardly be by chance that he chose a theme from one of Handel's harpsichord suites for his 25 variations. T...

Suite from Carmen for large brass ensemble, score 86 p. and parts. Featuring: Aragonaise, Les Dragons d'Alcalá, Habanera, La Garde Montante, and Danse Bohémienne. In 2025, we commemorate 150 years sin...

This first publication of the Sonata in D major is based on Bärenreiter's Camille Saint-Saëns OEuvres instrumentales complètes. Although we know from correspondence that two complete autographs existe...

Without a doubt, Dvořák's melodious cello concerto numbers among the most popular of its kind. It is hard to imagine that the Musical Times harboured little hope that it would remain in the repertoire...

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...

Since the 1830s, numerous composers have experimented with hybrid forms combining elements of the symphony, concerto and free fantasia. With his Second Piano Concerto, Liszt succeeded in finding an or...

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

Das hier vorliegende Concertino in Es-Dur op. 5 wurde eigens für den Leipziger Posaunenvirtuosen Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846) komponiert, der auch Widmungsträger des Werkes ist. Hinweise auf das...

> Inaccuracies in the first edition regarding the articulation and dynamics have been carefully resolved The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave th...

It is a great pleasure to present, with Thanatopsis, maestro Kissin's opus 4, an expressive setting of the ground-breaking poem from the quill of William Cullen Bryant. Published in in the form known...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and at the same time his most important work of this genre. The Mass is full of varied drama and confessional e...

Bruckner described his setting of Psalm 150 of 1892 as 'my best festive cantata of all'. Psalm 150 has a definite festive character, manifested straight away in the monumental Hallelujah theme for the...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Although Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition is often enjoyed in its original solo piano version, it is perhaps best known through its famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel, who masterfu...