Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

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...

Now II is the second part of a chamber music triptych entitled "Profiles of Light". The first part is composed for piano solo (Now I, BA 11073), the second part for violoncello solo, and in the final...

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...

I am Cello is one of several solo pieces by means of which the Australian-based composer remained in contact with her interpreters all over the world during the time of the coronavirus pandemic, compo...

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...

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...

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...

Introduzione e Allegretto giocoso by Paolo Baratto is a work full of contrasts and liveliness. It begins with an expressive Introduzione in which each motif seems to emerge from a subtle interplay of...

From a technical standpoint, "Don Quixote", this enchanting suite, enables soloists and pianists whose instrumental proficiency falls between the end of Level 1 and the beginning of Level 2 (on a scal...

Song Without Words by Paolo Baratto is a lyrical and expressive work full of sensitivity. True to its title, it lets the music speak entirely without words. The melody unfolds naturally in a calm and...

Song Without Words by Paolo Baratto is a lyrical and expressive work full of sensitivity. True to its title, it lets the music speak entirely without words. The melody unfolds naturally in a calm and...

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...