Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

Das Stück entstand als Geburtstagsgeschenk Elena Kats-Chernins für ihren langjährigen Mitstreiter, den australischen Geiger, Verlagsredakteur, Festivalleiter und Hochschullehrer Chris Latham. Beide Kü...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: ''Lullaby for Nick' war das erste Stück, das ich als kleines Mädchen komponiert habe. Ich musste es immer auf dem Klavier vorspielen, wenn Gäste zum Abendessen kamen. Währe...

Viele von Elena Kats-Chernins Werken stehen in Moll - dieses ist eine der Ausnahmen. Es handelt sich um eine kürzere, flottere Version ihres Stücks 'For Rosa', entstanden 2001 im Andenken an eine aust...

Dieses Stück ist eine Hommage an Elena Kats-Chernins Mutter, die als Augenärztin in Buchara in Usbekistan arbeitete. Weil es dort äußerst trocken und sandig war, litten viele der Einheimischen unter A...

Diese sechs kurzen Stücke eigenen sich für Instrumentalschüler und machen mit Techniken wie Doppelgriffen oder Linke-Hand-Pizzicato vertraut. Stücke 2 und 3 bieten dieselbe Musik in unterschiedlich sc...

Mit der Schriftstellerin Joanna Murray-Smith arbeitete Elena Kats-Chernin mehrfach zusammen, zuletzt bei der TV-Seifenoper The Divorce. A Nostalgic Piece wurde ursprünglich als Bühnenmusik für das The...

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...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

Black Cat - behind the title, one may rightly assume an allusion to the composer's surname, which comes from the Russian language. Elena Kats-Chernin indulges her passion for ragtime and tango in this...

Hans Winterberg has only recently been rediscovered as one of the most important representatives of the Czech avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century. Performed but not published during his...

Hans Winterberg's extraordinary life was written in two chapters, one Czech and one German, split right down the middle by the experience of the Shoah, which Winterberg, unlike his colleagues Ullmann,...

In April 2004, Richard Lane wrote this Summer Song for violin and piano in anticipation of his traditional summer stay in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he met his many musician friends with whom he g...

Sonata 1 for violin and piano was written in 1964 for Lane's friend, Isabelle Wegmann (1907-1997), renowned concert violinist and violin pedagogue. Lane and Wegmann were life-long friends and musical...

In June 1985, Richard Lane dedicated Serenade to his musician friends Ann M. and Roger (last names unknown). Lane constructed this piece on a clever canvas of letters=notes based on the last names of...

In This Particular Spring, Lane showcases a lyrical-seeking, dolce violin melody over a dramatic backdrop of echoing piano accompaniment. It is possible that Lane was inspired by the 'éntekhno' Greek...

Victor Music for the stage for Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir by Roger Vitrac (1928) Between 2001 and 2006, Caroline Charrière wrote several pieces of music for the Théâtre des Osses in Fribourg, ei...