Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

Sunrise Sparks is a work in five movements, conceived as a musical travel diary. It was written for two young cousins, Léa and Méline, who are both passionate about music. The piece follows their imag...

The composer comments on his composition: "This work was commissioned by the violist Nicolas Corti and the guitarist Han Jonkers, to whom I owe an intensive collaboration on the guitar part. This duet...

This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

Note by the composer: "This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

After moving to Munich in 1947, Hans Winterberg made contact with German musical life, primarily with the help of former friends from his student days in Prague, such as Fritz Rieger, the chief conduc...

The viola featured prominently in the compositional output of Richard Lane. This Triptych, a suite in three movements for six violas, is one of the eleven pieces dedicated to Myron Rosenblum (see comp...

Resume for website The four movements of this charismatic suite Quartet for violas (1978) demonstrate that Richard Lane was inspired by master composers who have created the milestones of music histor...

Song and Dance Richard Lane composed Song and Dance (1984) for Emanuel Vardi, the former Principal Violist in the NBC Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Vardi was one of the great masters of his instru...

In April 1988, Richard Lane composed Concert Music for two violas and piano for Emanuel Vardi and his wife Lenore Weinstock. Emanuel was one of the great masters of his instrument during the 20th cent...

Between 1984 and 2000, Myron Rosenblum (Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York) commissioned Lane to write six pieces for the viola d'amore, all of which were premiered at various Inter...

Since 1977, when my Suite for Violoncello alone was awarded the BBC Young Composers' Prize, my passion for string instruments, their subtle sound and expressive possibilities, as well as the refined a...

I began to compose my Sonata for Viola and Piano (2010-11) at a time of difficult personal circumstances. First, I had to have a series of delicate operations on my eyes. Happily, the surgeries were s...