Classical Modern Music Sheet Music for String Orchestra

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918), whose works have found a revival in more recent decades, wrote An English Suite in 1915, though it remained unpublished until 1921, three years after his...

The STRING QUARTET IN E MINOR by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was composed in 1873, one year before his REQUIEM MASS. It was written in his Naples hotel room while awaiting the continuation of rehearsal...

The ROMANCE in F minor, Op. 11 (B. 39) was composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in 1877, reworked from the Andantino movement of his 1873 STRING QUARTET NO. 5 in F minor, a work written before he wa...

The ROMANCE in F minor, Op. 11 (B. 39) was composed by Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) in 1877, reworked from the Andantino movement of his 1873 STRING QUARTET NO. 5 in F minor, a work written before he wa...

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) wrote this short work for string orchestra in 1903, when his style remained Romantic still. Originally titled Andante, Sibelius changed it to Romance in 1908 when a reviewer...

Originally written by Irish-born American composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924) as a piano character piece, YESTERTHOUGHTS originally included the subtitle "Meditation," which accurately described the m...

Originally written by Irish-born American composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924) as a piano character piece, GHAZEL is the fourth movement in a collection of works arranged by Sam Dennison and orchestrat...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) originally composed MEIN JESU, WAS FÜR SEELENWEH, BWV 487 for voice and keyboard. It belongs to a collection of sacred songs written likely in the 1730s or early 1740...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) originally composed MEIN JESU, WAS FÜR SEELENWEH, BWV 487 for voice and keyboard. It belongs to a collection of sacred songs written likely in the 1730s or early 1740...

Originally composed in 1922 for string quartet, ANDANTE FESTIVO was arranged by Jean Sibelius for string orchestra and timpani in 1938 when New York Times critic Olin Downes requested him to "conduct...

Alexander Borodin's (1834-1887) STRING QUARTET No. 2 was composed during the summer of 1881, possibly at the country home of his composer friend, Nikolay Lodizhensky, and was dedicated to Borodin's wi...

Alexander Borodin's (1834-1887) STRING QUARTET No. 2 was composed during the summer of 1881, possibly at the country home of his composer friend, Nikolay Lodizhensky, and was dedicated to Borodin's wi...

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), while born in Venezuela, moved to Paris at the age of three where he proved himself a child prodigy and learned to compose in the French style of that time. Le Bal de Béatri...

The OCTUOR in C, Op. 7, completed in 1900, took Romanian composer Georges Enesco (George Enescu; 1881-1955) one and a half years to write. It carves a different path from the celebrated octet by Mende...

The OCTUOR in C, Op. 7, completed in 1900, took Romanian composer Georges Enesco (George Enescu; 1881-1955) one and a half years to write. It carves a different path from the celebrated octet by Mende...

L'Estro armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration) is a collection of 12 concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) for stringed instruments first published in 1711. No. 10 in B minor (RV 580/F.I.10) is in thre...

L'Estro armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration) is a collection of 12 concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) for stringed instruments first published in 1711. No. 10 in B minor (RV 580/F.I.10) is in thre...

This overture is typical of the French style, and the concert element is also not completely missing in it. The fact that such a merry movement as Les Plaisirs is in a minor key proves that Georg Phil...

This overture is typical of the French style, and the concert element is also not completely missing in it. The fact that such a merry movement as Les Plaisirs is in a minor key proves that Georg Phil...

Baroque composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) wrote incidental music for the play ABDELAZER, OR THE MOOR'S REVENGE by Aphra Behn in 1695. While the play, first performed on or before July 3, 1676, floppe...