Advanced Classical Music Sheet Music

The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op....

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations" BWV 988 are among the undisputed pinnacles of Baroque keyboard literature. Originally published as the "Fourth Part of the Clavier-Übung", this monumental...

The pianist Christian Köhn, who is very familiar with Brahms' piano works, has now published a new edition of these variations on the eight-bar theme from Handel's Suite No. 1 ("Suite de pièces de Cla...

Hardly any piano cycle exerts such a magical attraction as Chopin's 24 "Préludes" published in 1839. Schumann described them as "sketches, the beginnings of etudes, [...] ruins, individual eagle's fea...

Volume III of Schubert's piano sonatas brings together the song-like, dance-like "Fantasy Sonata" in G major D 894 (1827) and the three large sonatas in C minor, A major and B flat major (D 958, 959 a...

In December 1818, the Viennese music publisher Pietro Cappi announced the founding of a new publishing house with his business partner Anton Diabelli. The new company Cappi & Diabelli proved to have a...

Marsyas is a character from Greek mythology. A master of the aulos, he was the adversary of the lyre-playing Apollo. When Apollo ordered musicians to accompany themselves when singing, Marsyas' fate w...

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music. 'Dance works' was written specifically for dance thea...

Prayer was one of seven new works performed at Spannungen chamber music festival in memory of Lars Vogt (1970-2022).

Experience one of the most moving moments of Baroque keyboard mastery on your own piano: With "O Mensch bewein dein Sünde groß" (BWV 622) from Johann Sebastian Bach's renowned Orgelbüchlein, you disco...

An old church near Petäjävesi forms the works starting point. Mustonen evokes its history in each of the works movements Die Kirchenbauer, Die Berührung des Heiligen, Dämonen, Der heilige Christophoru...

The Capriccio op. 146 is Nikolai Kapustin's last piano work for four hands. He wrote it for the duo "piaNA" in 2012. For the first time, it is now being published in a sheet music edition.

The Allegro movement "Nothing to Lose" was composed by Kapustin in 2004 and is now published for the first time as a sheet music edition.

Kapustin dedicated the piece "Countermove" to the Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who had released a complete CD of Kapustin's works in 2004. Kapustin himself later recorded "Countermove" for the...

Kapustin developed this scherzo from a short fun idea. The notes of the piano piece, which was already composed in 1999, now appear in print for the first time.

For the first time, Horowitz's best-known transcription appears in an official version. Horowitz never wrote down his transcriptions and so the edition follows the transcriptions of Caine Alder, who c...