Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

The Sonatina's three movements are played without a break. The opening Andante is a dark, slow waltz - a spectre, perhaps, of old Vienna - with its tightly coiled motifs leading to a more lyrical, med...

These 3 Bagatelles, for clarinet alone, by Icelandic composer Askell Masson, are a study of contrasts involving a wide range of dynamics while utilizing the full range of the clarinet. Quest, the firs...

Dez a fio' in Portuguese, is a linguistic expression which means 'a sequence of 10 things'. In the context of this work, this idea is reflected in formal structure, or, in other words, this work is th...

I chose Solissimo as a general title for a series of works for unaccompanied instruments. The first part of Solissimo III for clarinet alone - Lento - was written in the form of a passacaglia. A low t...

As a booster of contemporary music, it has always been my personal credo to premiere a composition at my concerts. When the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (NYC) asked me to perform a series of...

Richard Lane wrote this Rondo for 2 clarinets and piano in 1981 for his friends Stanley and Naomi Drucker. Stanley was the exceptional principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic from 1948 to 2...

Seganona, the Celtic title for this suite of impressions is originally the oldest name of the Swiss river that is today called Sarine (the name has gradually been changed over the years to comport pho...

Bagatelles, similarly to 'Badineries' or 'Capprici' allow composers to express their sense of humor, of parody or derision. This genre strongly inspires Jean-François Michel as these 3 Bagatelles for...

A Short Bedtime Story was written for my two grandchildren. It is a quiet piece that will help young children fall asleep and enter dreamland. A. P.

Artemisia Sketches, as my brass sextet La Pittura, is a suite based on themes and motives from an opera-in-progress about the brilliant Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. The pitch structure is ge...

This work was commissioned for the occasion of my 80th birthday (November 11, 1997). Composed in 1996, the piece consists of three movements, each a tribute to someone: 1) 'Hommage à I'Interprete' ('...