Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

This is a book for viola students in their first few years of learning. Pieces 1 to 3 are intended for those at about Grade 1; Pieces 4 to 6 are for those working at Grade 2; Pieces 7 to 9 suit those...

This approchable concerto for viola and piano was commissioned by Geoff Wright and dedicated to Violist Laura Newton. This is the piano reduction, which also includes the solo viola part, edited by La...

Fully Charged! Ten easy 'high-voltage' pieces for viola and piano. Preface This volume of original pieces has been composed with the intention of providing fun-based energetic material at elementary l...

In his "Herbstblatt" Heinz Holliger traces the biography of the composer Gideon Klein, who was murdered in the Auschwitz-Fürstenau concentration camp. As a shadow of memory, Holliger intersperses quot...

The Bridges of Newcastle by Garth Knox was composed for the 14th Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and is an imaginary musical cruise down the Tyne river on a viola, passing under each of...

Johanna Senfter’s Duo, completed in 1956, is the last and at the same time most compact of her five compositions for viola and piano. The impressive work is in a classical A-B-A form. Two mostly calm,...

In 1932 Johanna Senfter wrote Sechs Stücke for the church holidays for viola and organ. She arranged five of them for viola and piano as well. They are remarkable, atmospheric and colourful character...

The Sonata F minor for viola and piano op. 41, completed in May 1922, still breathes the spirit of the grand master Reger and yet already goes its own way in terms of rhythm, harmony, modulation and f...

The second Sonata F major for viola and piano op. 101 was composed in 1943 and is a fascinating testimony to its time. It stands in the tradition of the great classical sonata literature and yet is ch...

Of the five works that Johanna Senfter wrote for viola and piano, the Variations op. 94, completed at the beginning of the 1940s, are certainly her most sophisticated composition in terms of harmony a...

What is it like to become a stranger to yourself? A loss of memory due to traumatic experiences or dementia is addressed in a fascinating way in this composition, with the resonating strings of the vi...

Die Fantasia bucolica für Viola und Kammerorchester op. 13f (ursprünglicher Titel: Fantasie in D) entstand im Jahr 1956 im Auftrag des Kleinen Unterhaltungsorchesters Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. Im selbe...

This arrangement of the three-part compilation published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as on later piano transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the harmonies, chro...

Solo Performance Collection is a fresh new performance resource for soloists by popular composers Larry Clark and Tyler Arcari. This collection, written at a 1.5-3.5 grade level, has many varying work...

Das Stück wurde von einem Kollegen Brett Deans bei den Berliner Philharmonikern, dem Bratscher Walter Küssner, in Auftrag gegeben als Teil eines CD-Projektes mit Werken für Bratsche solo 1998/99. Seit...

Mit kniffligen Spieltechniken und der Auslotung extrem hoher und tiefer Lagen wurzelt Wild Rice in Kats-Chernins modernistischer, von Studien bei Helmut Lachenmann geprägter Frühphase. Doch in das ger...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: ''Patina' wurde ursprünglich für die Geigerin Jane Peters geschrieben und in einem Konzert neben Bachs berühmter 'Chaconne' uraufgeführt. Ich wollte ein Stück schreiben, da...

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...

Simon Laks (1901-1983), who moved from Warsaw to Paris in 1926 at the age of 25, belonged to the large group of composers from Central and Eastern European countries who went down in 20th-century musi...

These ten arrangements are a welcome addition to Rachmaninoff's small but important oeuvre for violoncello and piano. Klaus Simon explains that Rachmaninoff's songs are among the most beautiful in the...

Vladimir Genin's cycle Les Fleurs du Mal - Twelve Songs and Dances inspired by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire comprises twelve parts. The only two pieces without voice in a vocal cycle emerge as instrument...

During the academic year 1960-61 Richard Lane (1933-2004) was in Lexington, KY, USA. He had received a grant from the Ford Foundation to serve as a resident composer at Henry Clay High School - a publ...