Classical Modern Music Sheet Music for String Orchestra

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...

The result of a collaboration between Johann Strauss II and his brother Josef Strauss, the PIZZICATO POLKA, IJS 335, was composed for a trip to Russia in 1869. His Italian audiences particularly loved...

Dvorák's Symphony No. 6 bears many similarities to the symphonies of Brahms and Beethoven, and incorporates several Czech folk tunes. It was first performed in Vienna in 1883 by the Gesellschaft der M...

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) wrote at the age of 74 what some consider the best of his nine serenades. The Serenade in G minor, Op. 242 is in six movements, each of a unique character: I. Marcia, II. Ari...

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) wrote at the age of 74 what some consider the best of his nine serenades. The Serenade in G minor, Op. 242 is in six movements, each of a unique character: I. Marcia, II. Ari...

Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766) was a composer in the Baroque style. An Austrian, he is best known for preceding Joseph Haydn, with whom he had a difficult relationship, as the Kapellmeister of the H...

Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766) was a composer in the Baroque style. An Austrian, he is best known for preceding Joseph Haydn, with whom he had a difficult relationship, as the Kapellmeister of the H...

These works by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) are written for string orchestra and/or recorders. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Praetorius composed numerous collections of Lutheran chorales and other l...

These works by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) are written for string orchestra and/or recorders. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Praetorius composed numerous collections of Lutheran chorales and other l...

These works by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) are written for string orchestra and/or recorders. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Praetorius composed numerous collections of Lutheran chorales and other l...

These works by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) are written for string orchestra and/or recorders. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Praetorius composed numerous collections of Lutheran chorales and other l...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) composed his adagio for string orchestra, SOSPIRI, OP. 70, just before the onset of World War I. Originally planned to complement his SALUT D'AMOUR for violin and piano, he de...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's (1875-1912) FOUR NOVELLETTEN, Op. 52, is a brilliantly crafted set of four short movements for string orchestra, with optional tambourine and triangle. Its title possibly ins...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) received a commission in 1884 from the Moscow Society of Artists to "write some sort of musical entr'acte" for Russian actor Ivan Samarin's jubilee to celebrate fi...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) received a commission in 1884 from the Moscow Society of Artists to "write some sort of musical entr'acte" for Russian actor Ivan Samarin's jubilee to celebrate fi...

Written in 1887 by notable Leider composer Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Italian Serenade was originally written for string quartet and named simply Serenade in G Major. In his ongoing attempt to set the wor...

SIX ITALIAN DANCES are transcribed from a set of part-books which was known to have been in the possession of an English family before 1580. It is now in the British Museum (Royal Appendix MS 59-62)....

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) wrote some of the first Italian music for oboe. The second concerto of Albinoni's 12 Concerti a cinque is Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2. Albinoni dedicated this co...

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) wrote some of the first Italian music for oboe. The second concerto of Albinoni's 12 Concerti a cinque is Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2. Albinoni dedicated this co...

Czech composer and folklorist Leos Janácek's (1854-1928) IDYLL for string orchestra is his second surviving large-scale instrumental work, written by the then 24-year-old composer in the summer 1878 a...

The prodigy Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) composed the CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN No. 1 in D minor, MWV O 3, in 1822 when he was only 13. Written for Eduard Rietz, a dear friend and teacher, the co...

The prodigy Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) composed the CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN No. 1 in D minor, MWV O 3, in 1822 when he was only 13. Written for Eduard Rietz, a dear friend and teacher, the co...