Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

In this double concerto the Violin and Viola represent both aspects of a Janus-faced being: monolithic chordal blocks (in the second movement culminating in C major!) versus delicate melodic lines spr...

Aribert Reimann's second opera Melusine, premiered in 1971, was created before Lear. 'Yvan Goll modernized the story in 1922 by setting the story in the present day: Melusine kills to protect nature,...

Instrumentation: 3 (3rd also picc), 2, 2, 2, Kfag - 3, 3, 3, 1 - Pk, Schlg (3) - Hfe - Str/18 minutes Premiere on November 7, 1960 at Radio Basel: Orchester der Basler Orchestergesellschaft, conducted...

Instrumentation: Picc, 2, 2, 2, 2 (2. also Kfag) - 4, 3, 3, 1 - Pk, Schlg (2) - Hfe - Str (divided several times)/17 minutes Premiere on August 12, 1977 in Salzburg, Salzburg Festival: Mozarteum Orche...

Orchestra: Picc, 3, 2, 2 (2nd also BKlar), 2, Kfag - 4, 3, 4, 1 -Pk, Schlg (3) - Hfe, Harm(eloOrg)/Klav (1) - Str/28 minutes Premiere on March 21, 1986 in Munich: Wolfgang Brendel (baritone), Philharm...

Talking whilst playing the drum is not something unique. We can find it in traditional Indian percussion, and in jazz when musicians accompany their play with 'Sprechgesang'. This piece goes the oppos...