Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music Downloads

This Gloria ('Glory to God in the highest', written here on a German text) evolves from an intimate and contemplative atmosphere to an exciting spiritual fervour and can be performed either within the...

This new double concerto for two violins and orchestra is dedicated to the most diverse aspects of togetherness in eleven miniatures. Humorous, thoroughly extra-musically motivated modes of relationsh...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Study Score. Based on the famous medieval tapestries called La Dame à la Licorne, D'OM LE VRAI SENSE is a Clarinet Concerto commissioned by The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to clarin...

Trans, for harp and orchestra, premiered in Japan in 2016 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and harpist Xavier de Maistre. It was a co-commission between the Suntory Foundation for Arts, the Finnish R...

The original version of Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski-laulut for voice and piano (CH88086) was written for the soprano Anu Komsi, to whom the songs are dedicated. The song cycle is based on a collection...

Study score. Commissioned by the New Edinburgh Orchestra in celebration of Buzzy Murray. First performed on 19 March 2022 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra, conducted by Tim Paxton. Duration: c. 16 minut...

Study score for the orchestral work from 1998, composed by Saariaho for Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg's 40th birthdays.

Kaija Saariaho’s Vista for orchestra was commissioned by Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. It was partially inspired...

Commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union, the one-minute orchestral piece was was to employ a recognizable Beethovenesque spirit with a personal touch. The work reflects the vast changes in orc...

Silence, Night and Dreams is an extended song cycle for two solo voices, chorus and orchestra, premiered at the historic amphitheatre of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis on 4th September...

Gonzalo Grau's oratorio Aqua, commissioned by the International Bachakademie Stuttgart, is concerned with the important global theme of water. It is precisely in central Europe that this precious comm...

From the biographical point of view, Peter Eötvös’ composition for trumpet and large orchestra is related to his teacher and fellow composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whose work DONNERSTAG from LIGHT was...

Locke's Theatre, an orchestral work in three short movements, takes as its departure point incidental music written for Shakespeare's The Tempest by the seventeenth-century English composer Matthew Lo...

Deeply moved by his first visit to the city of Jerusalem with its seven gates, Krzysztof Penderecki composed this major vocal work to celebrate the city's 3,000th anniversary in 1995. Two years later,...