Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Igor Strawinsky schrieb die Danses concertantes ursprünglich für ein in Kalifornien ansässiges Unterhaltungsorchester. Die fünf Sätze sind allerdings mehr als rein orchestrale Tänze. Das Stück erinner...

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...

This collection from 1998 contains 7 small fugues and canons for the left hand.

The Fantasie op. 7 by the Chinese jazz pianist and composer A Bu is subtitled "Sleeping in a Dream".

A Bu composed the first sketch of this sonata shortly after the death of Nikolai Kapustin in July 2020. The subtitle "Pinus" (Pine) is given in memory of Kapustin's profound artistry and musical deter...

This small virtuoso rondo with jazz elements from 2003 is now published for the first time 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.

Kapustin composed the rondo „Vanity of Vanities“ op. 121 in 2004 and then recorded it for his CD „Kapustin Returns!“, released in Japan in 2008.

Kapustin composed the „Two Etude-Like Trinkets“ op. 122 in 2004 and later recorded them for his CD „Kapustin Returns!“, which was released in Japan in 2008.

Kapustin's Theme and Variations op. 80 were composed in 1996.

Nikolai Kapustin composed the Impromptu op. 83 in 1997 and later recorded it for the CD „Last Recording“, which was released in Japan in 2004.

Three for Two. Triptych for 2 pianos op. 145 was written by Kapustin in 2012 for the Japanese piano duo PiaNA, consisting of Natsuki Nishimoto and Asuka Matsumoto.

With Crystals of the Moment, Enjott Schneider has created a poetic piano work that emerged from an encounter with Liszt’s "Grand Sonata" and the artistic inspiration of pianist Tomoko Sawallisch. At t...

Alles klingt hier zunächst ganz leicht. Die Töne hüpfen durch- und übereinander wie von einem Zauberer beschworen. Doch so ganz glatt läuft es nicht, hier und da hakt es, Noten kommen sich in die Quer...

The young Sudhana, protagonist of several Asian writings, meets nine teachers on his journey. After each encounter, he processes the experienced and learned. In the process, all of the figures that ha...

For piano, score 8 pages. Listen to the audio sample for an immediate impression of how this piece sounds. The distinctive musical style of Patrick's father, Raymond Decancq, was difficult to classify...

Collection for piano, includes 4 pieces: - Olivina: score 7 pages - Transhumana: score 11 pages - Bella Dormiente: score 3 pages - Sentiero delle anime: score 7 pages For this collection, the composer...

Schönberg’s publisher Emil Hertzka provided the impetus for composition of the Piano Piece op. 33a in 1928. In fact, he had merely asked for permission to print an older work in the collection Musik d...

In the “Nocturnes” for orchestra and women’s chorus, composed between 1897 and 1899, Debussy realised his concept that the musical form should emerge freely from the material. With the tripartite stru...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini was his last and at the same time most significant work for piano and orchestra. As a cycle of variations on Paganini's 24th Caprice from op. 1, i...

With his Études-Tableaux Rachmaninoff continued down the path that Chopin and Liszt had already set out on with their concert etudes: the most demanding technical tasks are presented in the form of ex...

The Five Piano Pieces op. 23 are a transitional work in which Schönberg made the decisive step from free atonal music to composition based on tone rows, which however did not yet necessarily have to c...