Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

When I was a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), I took third study organ with George McPhee, the organist of Paisley Abbey. One of the...

Song of the Indian Guests is a famous excerpt from the opera Sadko by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In this work, the composer depicts the arrival of traders from distant lands, includ...

With this energetic work, Jirka Kadlec takes up one of the most famous themes in the classical repertoire: Niccolò Paganini's famous Capriccio No. 24. While retaining the virtuosity and striking chara...

The Serenata for wind sextet by John Glenesk Mortimer was composed for the Swiss Wind Soloists in 1981 at the request of clarinettist Kurt Weber and premiered in Bern. The work emphasizes the rich and...

Chanson à Morphée by Jean-François Michel, written for wind quintet, is inspired by the phrase "in Morpheus' arms", a symbol for falling asleep. The work explores this floating state in which consciou...

The Washington Post (often called "The Washington Post March") is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. Since then, it has remained as one of his most popular marches, famous throughout the w...

Written to be a challenging, but accessible piece, Antique Variations takes the players through a variety of musical forms from the Baroque and Classical eras. While this 'looking back in time' is fun...

This Wind Quintet was given its premiere on 19 April 1998 by the Pentagon Ensemble of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, at the Royal Northern College of Music and Drama, Manchester as par...

Springtide evokes the freshness, colour and dance-like energy of spring poetry from across the centuries, inspired by George Herbert's Vertue, the anonymous 13th-century Alysoun and the 9th-century La...

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...

Hans Winterberg's Quintet was composed in 1981/82 at his last residence in Steppberg, Bavaria, on the occasion of a composition competition organised by the East German Cultural Council. Until the rel...

Hans Winterberg's Quintet was composed in 1981/82 at his last residence in Steppberg, Bavaria, on the occasion of a composition competition organised by the East German Cultural Council. Until the rel...

My Serenata in Stile Antico is strongly influenced by Italian Baroque music of the 17th century. The opening movement, Ciaconna, is based on a repeating bass line of four bars. The following Siciliana...

In a typical tango atmosphere, a melancholy, sensual melody opens the first piece. Then a simple but intense song unfolds, in a sometimes thin, sometimes passionate setting. The last piece is rhythmic...

For 'Eastwind', Jean-François Michel was cleverly inspired by the rich Balkan or Eastern European musical folklore, which was introduced by the gypsies in countless variations wherever they settled. T...

Gerne überraschte Mutter Teresa ihre Gesprächspartner damit, dass sie ihnen anstelle einer herkömmlichen Visitenkarte ein kleines Kärtchen überreichte, auf dem ein kurzer Text zu lesen war, beginnend...

Partchs Titel And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma ist eine Hommage an seine kalifornische Heimat. 4 Jahrzehnte verbrachte der Komponist - mit 2 jeweils 6-jährigen Unterbrechungen - in der B...

The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

Nikolai Kapustin is considered a pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. His music combines typical idioms of jazz with classical forms. The Trio op. 86 for flute, violoncello and piano from 1998 is one of...