Advanced Classical Music Sheet Music

Using a chamber music approach to scoring for wind ensemble, the transcriber has here created a very authentic wind setting of three Brahms orchestral dances. For advanced groups with strong players 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...

Revised edition HN1118 in preparation

Ravel/ed. by Weekley & Arganbright: Maurice Ravel based the five pieces in this remarkable suite on French 'Mother Goose' nursery tales. Laideronnette, Impératrice Des Pagodes, is entirely set in the...

Joseph Haydn's concertos for violoncello and orchestra stand out for their lightness and elegance. The Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb:1 was most likely written between 1762 and 1765, when Haydn was alr...

In 2023, Tim De Maeseneer asked composer Stijn Roels to write a solo work for tenor horn and piano, as a special piece for his second solo CD; a lyrical composition in which Tim, as a professional ten...

These '24 Studies' have been transcribed from the fugues of 'The Well-Tempered Clavier', Book I, written by J.S.Bach in 1722. The use of each of the twelve major and minor keys offered a unique collec...

Great Performer's Edition.

First came Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas, then Nicolò Paganini's caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugène Ysaye, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are ava...

In the field of New Music, Sofia Gubaidulina's 'De profundis' has already achieved the status of a classic. It is not only an attainment of the New Music that instruments are capable of approaching th...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Bob Vos (1910-1963) was a Dutch composer who studied composition with Henk Badings at the Brussels Conservatory from 1957. Unfortunately, little is known about his early years, but his work shows a cl...

Two copies necessary for performance. Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto no. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound differe...

The variation cycle and the fugue are genres in which Max Reger developed a special mastery. Thus one can speak of Reger's unique Bach Variations op. 81 as the culmination of his piano oeuvre, offerin...

Das authentischste Arrangement für Brass Band. Komplette Suite mit: Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Based on themes by Georges Bizet

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...

Brahms' only violin concerto was given a very warm reception by his contemporaries and has been an important piece in the violin repertoire ever since. It bears witness to Brahms' fruitful collaborati...

With this piece, the composer wanted to create a dream-like experience for the listener. In each of the four movements (Absence, Caprice, Nocturne and The Return), a different dream state is evoked wi...

An outlined course of study designed to follow the elementary and intermediate levels of any instructional method, the Rubank Advanced Methods are considered to be one of the gold standards of advance...

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absu...

This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes...

Inspired by the historical structures submerged beneath the waters of Lake ?znik, this composition by Faz?l Say presents a new narrative space shaped around history, memory, and imagination. ?znik (hi...

Das Requiem von Gabriel Fauré gehört zweifellos zu den wichtigsten Werken seiner Gattung. Der weltweit gefeierte bulgarische Pianist und Komponist Emile Naoumoff, Schüler von Nadia Boulanger, schrieb...