Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

The first movement has a dreamy and dramatic impressionistic quality, whereas the second movement is deeply melancholy and religious sounding. The third movement is playful with pulsating rhythms, whi...

A bold and invigorating first movement, a mysterious and tender second movement and a third movement with several mood shifts from lyrical to highly rhythmical. In 1971, Lane wrote his Piano Sonata 3...

Persistently melodic, with constant forward movement, accompanied by densely chromatic harmonies and many polyrhythmic sections, creating an intensely dramatic work. In 1975 Lane composed his Piano So...

Sami's Piece was written for a jazz musician, and should be played with a jazz feel (and a nod to polyrhythmic Balkan folk music). It's an exuberant work, relatively short, but dizzying, full of surpr...

In her Impromptu, Helena Winkelman conjures an atmosphere of timelessness, employing musical elements variously meditative and percussive, punctuated by shadowy accents in the contrabass register and...

Armenian Bas-Reliefs is a cycle of 5 short piano pieces written around 1975: 'I - Ayrivank' [famous armenian cave monastery] an Andante sostenuto 'nel modo antico', II - Blue Eyed Girl (capriccioso co...

Talent Night At The Zoo is an album of seven short, delightful and inventive pieces, ranging in difficulty from beginning to end of intermediate level. The octaves often used, as well as some tricky r...

Most of the more than 500 works that Richard Lane (1933-2004) composed between 1948 and 2004 and systematically dated (month/year) are dedicated to his numerous, loyal friendships - musicians, student...

Each movement of my suite 'Illuminations' was inspired by a poem by Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). The first movement ('...vieilles fanfares d'héroïsme') opens the suite in a festive manner; the second (...

The composer wrote this work with a fundamentally pedagogical character for young pianists. Beginning with each of the 7 notes of the scale, with 7 female first names, his intention was: - to give bot...

For me, the time has come to honor someone who has faithfully accompanied me since 1947, for over 65 years, and has been a witness to my joys and sorrows in composing my Opera 8 to 111. Today we still...

These 3 Impromptus are excellent examples of a composer in full mastery of his art, capable of writing beautiful music at any level of difficulty. Impromptu I (without dedication, but most likely for...

Suite No. 1, written by Richard Lane between his 20th and 22nd year, marks the beginning of the high level music he composed for solo piano. The five movements follow one soul state after another. Pol...

L'enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

The first sketches for this piece date back to 2002, written as a tribute to Argentinian friends during a period of great economic and social crisis in their country. This composition draws on a deep...