Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Friede auf Erden op. 13 is considered Arnold Schönberg's last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. The first sketches for his 2nd String Quartet, a key w...

The seven-minute composition is based on an English text by John Cage: a quasi-musical calculated succession of 56 short basic questions about music. Singer and instrument have to perform various voca...

In the 1980s Raskatov had experimented with a developing aural sign system – call it the „linguistics“ of music – such as the polystylistic manner of Schnittke, and various minimalist techniques. At t...

Lied ohne Worte was commissioned by the Ruhr Piano Festival for Alfred Brendel’s 75th birthday. First performed (as Lied) on 9 August 2006 with Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner, Wuppertal, Historische...

This 'Trio Ballad' begins with constantly insistent, rapid sextuplets. The clarinet is a kind of an airhead (of all trades) and the viola is a type of demon. The piano provides a foundation for the ot...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

Gonzalo Grau's oratorio Aqua, commissioned by the International Bachakademie Stuttgart, is concerned with the important global theme of water. It is precisely in central Europe that this precious comm...

At the end of the 1980s, the trumpeter Thierry Caens asked me to write a concerto for him; I accepted this proposal with great enthusiasm, but also, I must confess, with a certain amount of nervousnes...

At the end of the 1980s, the trumpeter Thierry Caens asked me to write a concerto for him; I accepted this proposal with great enthusiasm, but also, I must confess, with a certain amount of nervousnes...

Her 'Carmen' fascinated the masses. Anna Sutter was the acclaimed star of the Stuttgart Opera, and her murder on 29 June 1910 accordingly made the headlines: Aloys Obrist, a conductor and former lover...

Her 'Carmen' fascinated the masses. Anna Sutter was the acclaimed star of the Stuttgart Opera, and her murder on 29 June 1910 accordingly made the headlines: Aloys Obrist, a conductor and former lover...

Her 'Carmen' fascinated the masses. Anna Sutter was the acclaimed star of the Stuttgart Opera, and her murder on 29 June 1910 accordingly made the headlines: Aloys Obrist, a conductor and former lover...

Cantabile, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, is an extensive work that makes use of many of the virtues and clichés of the viola (leisureliness, melancholy, gloominess etc.), but that also refutes t...

'Final(ment)e', Beziehungsweisen für zwei Trompeten und Orchester, wurde als atmosphärischer Bezug zum Requiem von Gabriel Fauré komponiert. Mehrere Zitate aus diesem monumentalen Werk sowie Eigenzita...

'Final(ment)e', Beziehungsweisen für zwei Trompeten und Orchester, wurde als atmosphärischer Bezug zum Requiem von Gabriel Fauré komponiert. Mehrere Zitate aus diesem monumentalen Werk sowie Eigenzita...

'Final(ment)e', Beziehungsweisen für zwei Trompeten und Orchester, wurde als atmosphärischer Bezug zum Requiem von Gabriel Fauré komponiert. Mehrere Zitate aus diesem monumentalen Werk sowie Eigenzita...