Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

My second string trio is a more large-scale piece than the compact, single-movement first, written just over a decade ago. It is made up of seven short movements, each one picking up an idea, or a not...

Highly regarded for the finesse and elegance of her spirited, humorous writing, the composer Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999) wrote numerous works for a variety of instruments, collaborating also with the re...

Paul Bonneau (1918–1995) was considered by all his contemporaries to be the leading composer of French light symphonic music: he collaborated on fifty full-length films in addition to numerous shorts...

Suite, consisting of six short pieces for alto saxophone and piano, is a virtuoso work for this duo. I composed my Suite in 2014 in commission of the legendary saxophone virtuoso Mr. Sugawa with whom...

Harlequin was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, euphonium virtuoso David Childs. The piece takes as its inspiration the happy and sad masks which symbolise the Commedia dell'Arte (which features H...

Even as a young musician, Otto M. Schwarz played numerous works in the baroque style on the trumpet. Inspired by these student days, he is now composing new works 'in the style of…'. We open with a fe...

Featuring four original movements in classic dance styles, this unique suite for proficient soloists with piano offers performers with several unique options–the solo material may be played entirely o...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)

This collection contains works from the so-called 'Belle Époque', the time period right around the turn of the 20th century which have been arranged for flute and piano by Franco Cesarini. It includes...

Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris' Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!...

In 1929, Olivier Messiaen finished composing his Préludes. The first original work for piano of a twenty-one-year-old composer, it would be the first to be included in his official catalogue. This col...

With performance notes (in French) by the composer for each movement. Contents: Regard du Père - Regard de l'étoile - L'échange - Regard de la Vierge - Regard du Fils sur le Fils - Par Lui tout a été...

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his na...

Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as 'Rach 2,' is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a...

The toccata genre has undergone great change since Bach’s time. Originally denoting works of recitative or improvisatory character, since the 19th century the emphasis has been on a continuous pulsati...

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites w...

In this work for solo trombone and trombone quartet, the composer emphasizes the finest tonal, dynamic and rhythmic diversity of the trombones. Apart from the form, these Trois Tableaux [Three Picture...