Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

'Incarnation' (1956), Bohuslav Martinu's fourth piano concerto, follows an atypical two-movement structure. It was composed for Martinu's friend Rudolf Firkušný, who played from a copy of the autograp...

Martinu composed the one-act opera 'Ariane' over the course of a single month, in June 1958. He prepared the libretto himself according to his friend Georges Neveux's play 'The Voyage of Theseus' (194...

“The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca” and “The Parables” represent the culmination of the late Neo-Impressionist orchestral output of Bohuslav Martinu, marked by a fantastic, kaleidoscopic style. Ma...

Bohuslav Martinu's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 exists in three versions: the first from 1930, the second from 1939 and the third from 1955. These three versions differ primarily in th...

Bohuslav Martinu composed the one-act opera "Mariken de Nimègue" based on a medieval Dutch Marian miracle during his stay in Paris in 1933 to a French text by Henri Ghéon. This is the unpublished and...

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I, Band 9.2 Besetzung: Sopran solo (3), Alt solo (3), Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor: SATTB, 1. Flauti (Piccolo-Flöte, 1. Blockflöte, Flöte) 2. Flauti (Piccolo-...

The Serenata in tre parti Parnasso in festa was first performed on the occasion of the wedding between Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange in March 1734. The music is largely based on the En...

'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' is by far Handel's most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Hand...

With his 'La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' ('Beauty Reformed in the Triumph of Time and Enlightenment'), HWV 46a, the 22-year-old Handel notched up one of his greatest suc...

In the autograph, the 'little Cecilia Ode', composed in September 1739, is superscribed with 'Song'; the title used in contemporary sources, such as the textual source by John Dryden, and taken over b...

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

Haydns 'Abschiedssinfonie' ist eines der meistgespielten Werke der sinfonischen Literatur. Der populäre Titel stammt nicht vom Komponisten: Er bezieht sich auf den Finalsatz, an dessen Ende (Adagio) d...

Zusammen mit den Londoner und Pariser Sinfonien gehören Haydns Sturm-und-Drang-Sinfonien zu den meistgespielten Werken des Komponisten. Unter ihnen befinden sich nicht nur Meisterwerke wie die 'Abschi...

Urtext aus/from: Joseph Haydn Werke, G. Henle Verlag München

This edition clarifies a performance aspect of Haydn's Symphony in G major that has long been misunderstood: in m. 1 of the second movement (Largo) the viola, violoncello and several wind instrument p...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 79 and 81, Haydn's D-minor Symphony Hob. I:80 belongs to a set of symphonies that he completed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his ta...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 79 and 81, Haydn's D-minor Symphony Hob. I:80 belongs to a set of symphonies that he completed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his ta...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 80 and 81, Haydn's Symphony in F major Hob. I:79 belongs to a group of works that he composed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy who wish...