Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Step into a world of musical expression with Piano Expressions, a captivating collection of 17 original piano solos for early to late intermediate students and pianists. Each piece tells its own story...

Yiruma SOLO: Original is the authorised collection from the best-selling album SOLO, written and scored by Yiruma for piano solo. Yiruma’s musical journey began at age five, when a fascination with th...

Scriabin's early Etudes op. 8 are at the heart of virtuoso piano repertoire, their methodical and pedagogical intent clearly visible. However, they are also 12 character pieces, revealing Scriabin's w...

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is enti...

Seasons', 'A Symphony for Brass Quintet', was composed during the summer of 1986. It was written specifically for the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, of which John Stevens is a member. The composition of thi...

The virtuoso Allen Vizzutti knows the trumpet like the back of his hand. His pedagogical strategy within these Advanced Etudes, merging technical challenges and musicianship, leads evidently to effici...

This is the Friedrich Hofmeister edition of Alexej Lebedjew's Concerto No.1 which was originally scored for Tuba or Bass Trombone and Orchestra. This edition has a Piano reduction of the original Orch...

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...

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...

This approchable concerto for clarinet and piano is dedicated to David Campbell. This is the piano reduction, which includes the solo part for clarinet in Bb. Please note, that a full score and orches...

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...

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...

From the heart of the global paradigm shift and intense lockdown interiors, people found solace in nature, coming up for air in the public spaces permitted by pandemic regs, seeing that others were go...

Taking the idea of the Greek Muses as a starting point, Musae is a contemporary reflection of different aspects of Woman, in all her power, vulnerability, messiness, beauty, wisdom, and limitless abil...

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...

Serenata is based on a cantabile melody, mostly built on sixth intervals, with a scordatura in F that gives the piece a Lydian flavor. The central section changes to a minor pedal on the second degree...

Alban Berg's Sonata Opus 1 for Piano has often been termed as a milestone in early 20th century music. The sonata clearly stems from the Romantic period, but the 'modern' harmonies and complex themati...

Like so many famous virtuosic works, Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin was said, by its commissioner, Yehudi Menuhin, at first sight, to be unplayable! Of course, Menuhin soon changed his opinion, later...

Anton Webern's late instrumental works have always been admired as examples of a systematic, innovative application of twelve-tone technique. From our perspective today, however, the reliance on older...

On the 150th anniversary of the death of Ferruccio Busoni, G. Henle Publishers is issuing one of his most important original works for piano solo. In light of his popular Bach arrangements, it is easy...