Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

The Concertino for trumpet and organ was written in 1962 for and dedicated to Jean-Pierre Mathez, who played the premiere of it June 28, 1962 at the Collégiale Church in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, with t...

2 Portraits was written in 1995, and consists of two movements in a romantic contemporary style and may be played as a set or individually. The first of these Portraits, entitled Psalm, was conceived...

Set piece at the International Competition for wind instruments in Toulon, France, May 2000

Set piece at the International Competition for wind instruments in Toulon, France, May 2000

The Concertino* was written between 17th December 1966 and January 10th 1967 in Belmont, near Lausanne, a few months before the composer's death. It is in three movements: Capriccio (5'30'), Recitativ...

In this Concerto, Zdenek Lukas places deft mastery of orchestration at the service of a vivacious creative impulse. Double woodwinds plus piccolo (3-2-2-2), judiciously reduced brasses (4-0-0-0), and...

Inventive, rhythmic and at the very least spicy studies. A challenge for advanced trumpeters.

Shinichi Takata's Sonatine in F major is the earliest piece of original trumpet music ever written by a Japanese composer. The existence of this music has only recently been acknlowedged, and among th...

Shinichi Takata's 'Three pieces for Cornet and Piano' is the oldest known written score for the cornet ever composed by a Japanese. Shinichi wrote the work in 1939, when he was 18 years old, for Fujio...

In Memoriam was composed in 2010 in memory of Gwen Smith, mother of Philip Smith (principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic) and wife of Derek Smith. As an inspiration for this composition I was...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of my favorite composers since childhood. His destiny touched me deeply: A childhood with a difficult father, the loss of his mother, bad luck with women, progressive deaf...