Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms-Gesamtausgabe of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna EB 6043 is printed in score ; for performance two copies are needed

EB 8568 is printed in score; two copies are needed for performance

score and study score with the text by Loriot

That Schumann truly dug his heels into symphonic creation becomes clear at the latest when we look not only at his four well-known symphonies, but also at the works between the genres, such as the Ove...

The question 'Why add music to such perfect poetry?' preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to Goethes 'Faust' began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he fin...

Schumann had already worked on Byron's Manfred as a law student, and the topic fascinated him from that time on. Perhaps he discovered a spiritual affinity to himself in the romantic hero's inner conf...

The Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is the only compositional result that Schumann reaped from Goethes epic poem. He had originally planned an entire opera, then a Singspiel, and finally an oratorio....

Robert Schumann placed great importance on the genre of the 'overture,' as can be seen in the chronology of the genesis of his sole opera Genoveva. In his 'Haushaltbuch' the composer entered as his fi...

The piece is a masterful example of program music that seemingly casually interweaves two Russian folk songs, a liturgical melody of the Russian Orthodox Church and two national anthems, the Marseilla...

Like Hamlet Overture, originating at about the same time, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, composed in 1888, focuses on the human existential question: To be or not to be - triumph over fate or triumph of...

Über den Kompositionsprozess von Lemminkäinenist wenig bekannt und die Aufführungs- und Veröffentlichungsgeschichte ist ziemlich komplex. Eine vollständige Veröffentlichung aller vier Sätze als Suite...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en sui...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his Reformation Symphony for the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the 'Confessio Augustana,” the Protestant declaration of faith. Owing to various and...

Mendelssohns Double Concerto in D minor is no longer an unfamiliar title on our concert programs. It takes on a new guise, however, in this volume of the Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelss...

Ravels brilliant compositional interpretation of the Pictures at an Exhibition is, to this day, the most famous and independent orchestration of Mussorgskys masterpiece. When the French composer turne...

Im Herbst 1909 schrieb Sibelius in sein Tagebuch: "Am Koli! Eines der größten Erlebnisse meines Lebens. Pläne [für] "La Montagne"! Es stellte sich heraus, dass es sich dabei um Pläne für die Vierte Sy...

Mit dem Violinkonzert e-moll op. 64 MWV O 14, seinem letzten Solokonzert, schuf Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ein Standardwerk der Violinliteratur, das heute im Konzertrepertoire fest etabliert ist. Als...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today’s concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Cantata, next to opera, remains one of the most important musical genres in Moniuszko's work. Crimean Sonnets for mixed choir and orchestra, a work composed to words by Adam Mickiewicz, was written in...