Classical Music Sheet Music Downloads

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Estuans intrinsecus" (No. 191 in the Codex Buranus) is attributed to a poet whose name has come down to us as Arc...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iste mundus" (text no. 24 in the Codex Buranus) articulates a lament about the falseness and transience of human...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": "O Fortuna" (text no. 17 in the Codex Buranus) is a rhythmic strophic song. The text has been world-famous since Carl Orff...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iam dudum estivalia pertransiere tempora" (The summer season has long since passed) comes from the later-discover...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The section "Carmina armatoria" (love songs) is the largest group in the Codex Buranus (texts no. 56-186) with 131 texts of...

Iceland's harsh climate and dark winters characterize the country's folklore. The rugged landscapes become props for stories and myths that are passed down from generation to generation. Fantastic cre...

True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? This is how Edgar Allan Poe's psychogram of a murderer begins in the short story "The Tell Tale H...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

Schon immer hatte Brahms ein sicheres Gespür für lyrische Qualität. Musikalisch besonders berührend wusste er mit seinem Zyklus 'Vier Quartette' op. 92 für Singstimmen und Klavier vier Gedichte von Go...

This is how the Parzen, the goddesses of fate in Greek and Roman mythology, sang: the Parzenlied in Goethe's verse drama "Iphigenia in Tauris", which became the model for Johannes Brahms, is about cur...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, have remained relatively unknown to this day. And yet these mot...

The Christmas anthem "Nazareth" is based on a composition by Charles Gounod entitled "Jésus de Nazareth". The original work, which Gounod composed for solo baritone and orchestra with only a few bars...

The Missa secunda was composed in 1964. It is dedicated by the composer "to my dear wife Margit on the occasion of our 25th wedding anniversary". The Sanctus was composed later. The Credo is not set t...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...