Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

Das Stück entstand, als Elena Kats-Chernins jüngster Sohn Nick verlangte, nach all den Verwandten und Freunden solle nun auch einmal ein Stück für ihn entstehen. Der Titel 'Zweite Tür links' bezieht s...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: Vor einigen Jahren beauftragte mich die Künstlerin und Fotografin Joyce Evans, ein Stück zum Gedenken an ihre Mutter Rosa zu schreiben. Im Jahr 2012 wurde ich gebeten, dies...

Zum Beethoven-Jahr sollten Komponisten ausgewählte Textstellen aus Beethovens Konversationsheften vertonen. York Höllers Text 'fokussierte sich am Ende auf den Satz ‚Das Rad läuft‘ - darin stecken die...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), Meisterschüler Franz Schrekers und Leonid Kreutzers, jüngster Student der Berliner Hochschule und jüngster Träger des renommierten Mendelssohn-Preises der Weimarer Rep...

Für seine Abschiedssaison nach 35 Jahren kreierte das Hannoveraner Nomos-Quartett 2019 eine Konzertreihe rund um die Werke Ludwig van Beethovens, der ja auf dem Gebiet des Streichquartetts Maßstabsetz...

I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called "Zeche 2" in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena...

In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me a...

In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me a...

Olga Neuwirth's string quartet, written in 2009, is a homage to the American artist Henry Darger and his richly illustrated book manuscript of the same name, which was only discovered posthumously. Ne...

1936 was Hans Winterberg's most fruitful creative year before the catastrophe that befell Czechoslovakia with the annexation of the Sudeten territories in 1938 and the "rest of Czechoslovakia" in 1939...

Hans Winterberg's 2nd String Quartet from 1942 is one of the few works that he was able to compose under unimaginable living conditions during the period of Nazi terror in Czechoslovakia. In that year...

Each of the four string quartets by the Bohemian composer Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) has its own unusual history. The first, composed in happy times in Prague in 1936, had to wait until 2024 for its...

Hans Winterberg's four string quartets were composed over a period of four decades between 1936 and 1961 and reflect the four stages of his eventful biography. He composed the first in what were proba...

Hans Winterberg's Streichtrio from 1960 is one of the composer's most substantial chamber music works. On the one hand, he achieves a fascinating symbiosis of the most important tendencies of German-A...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow’s McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, "My first string quartet, Visions of a November S...

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

Adagio con Sordino is the version for string quartet of an instrumental interlude from the vocal cycle Les Fleurs du Mal - Twelve Songs and Dances inspired by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, composed by Vl...

At the Foot of the Hafursey Mountains by Ewen Cousin is directly inspired by the Icelandic landscapes - vast, mineral and characterized by silence - which become the starting point for musical reflect...

The idea came to me suddenly: It would be Undine or Ophelia, in any case with a connection to water. When I reread the two stories, I decided on Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, a touching portrayal of...

The brevity of my Quatuor No. 1, op. 60 and the little piece Alligun were probably the incentive to undertake the composition of a more extensive string quartet at an advanced age. It seemed urgent to...