Classical Music (Romantic) Sheet Music Downloads

These 12 progressive duets were written for the slide trumpet by Thomas Harper Snr (1786-1853) and published in his Instructions for the Trumpet in 1835. Harper suggests the slide trumpet could be eff...

Masterpiece of Romantic concerto literature Antonín Dvorák composed the violin concerto between 1879 and 1882. Joseph Joachim had a significant influence during the compositional period. The concerto...

The Erfurt-born composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) was a successful soloist and teacher in America. His best-known pieces for young violinists are The Boy Paganini and The Infant Paganini. Both a...

The Erfurt-born composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) was a successful soloist and teacher in America. His best-known pieces for young violinists are The Boy Paganini and The Infant Paganini. Both a...

The Belgian violinist Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870) was also a teacher and composer. "Scène de Ballet" is perhaps his best-known composition. It is often played by violin students, including t...

De Bériot also composed a series of concertos. The Ninth in A minor, published in 1859, is also a popular choice for advanced violin students. The then 8-year-old Julia Fischer also performed it with...

Oskar Rieding (1846-1916) is known to all young violinists for his easily playable concerti for violin and piano. Of these, the works op. 34 to op. 36 are all in the first position. Paired with catchy...

Edmund Severn (1862-1942) was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, he studied in Berlin and elsewhere. He wrote works for solo violin, orchestra and string quartet. His best-known work...

Johannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano became part of the standard chamber music repertoire soon after they were written. While composing, Brahms had specific musicians in mind as...

Johannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano became part of the standard chamber music repertoire soon after they were written. While composing, Brahms had specific musicians in mind as...

In his symphonic poem 'Danse macabre' Saint-Saëns takes up a poem by Henri Cazalis that he had already set as an art song. Here the Devil brings the dead to life by playing his violin. Although the or...

The Romances op. 22 are today among Clara Schumann's most popular chamber music works. For violinists and pianists, they're also of particular importance due to the wealth of information by Schumann,...

The second half of the 19th century was a kind of "golden age" of the violin sonata in France: Violin sonatas as influential as those by Franck, Fauré or Saint-Saëns were among the successful works in...

The second half of the 19th century was a kind of "golden age" of the violin sonata in France: Violin sonatas as influential as those by Franck, Fauré or Saint-Saëns were among the successful works in...

Joseph Joachim's "Fantasies on Hungarian and Irish [Scottish] Motifs" represent his first serious attempt to compose virtuoso music for violin with orchestral accompaniment. On the one hand, he aspire...

César Franck's Sonata for piano and violin is one of the most highly esteemed works in the violin literature, a masterpiece of cyclical form - with its grace and expressive power, it is almost paradig...

Although Sergei Rachmaninoff only left behind a relatively small oeuvre for string instrument and piano in comparison to his more substantial groups of works, these few works date from all phases of h...

On 18 January 1887 Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) started composing his Romantic Pieces for violin and piano, opus 75 (B 150), completing that version on 25 January. They were performed for the first ti...

The Belgian violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was one of the most important violin virtuosos of the 19th century. Concert tours took him throughout Europe and to the USA; for only a...