Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

The genesis and source history of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' is convoluted and poses considerable difficulties for today's research. A definitive 'last hand version' does not exist.

Experience the awakening of spring in all its musical glory: Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, the famous 'Spring Symphony', radiates youthful freshness, captivating momentum,...

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

Oh, the tempi! A terrible thing!, Dvorák repeatedly complained. Not without reason, as the renowned Dvorák expert Klaus Döge found in the edition of the '8th'.

Well-founded re-evaluated Can there still be new readings compared to traditional editions? This is the question that editor Clive Brown has addressed, meticulously scrutinizing the often contradictor...

Complete for the first time: Mozart's 'zeroth' Horn ConcertoWhen two sheets with 60 additional measures to the well-known Rondo K. 371 appeared in 1988, it was a sensational discovery.

Experience the thrilling early symphonic masterpiece of a musical genius: Immediately following his twelve celebrated string symphonies (1821–1823), the merely 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy...

Felix Mendelssohn's captivating Double Concerto in D minor MWV O 4 for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra is a true gem of Romantic concert repertoire, delighting both performers and audiences worldwide. Wr...

Cliff Eisen is responsible for a secure original text based on the autograph and knowledge of historical performance practice. Andrew Manze completes the edition with his instrumentally appropriate an...

The triple 'Hafner-Musique' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Hafner Symphony K. 385 in the summer of 1782 on the occasion of the nobilization of his friend and patron Sigmund Hafner. In addition t...

Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 is undoubtedly one of the most sublime and powerful masterpieces of late-Romantic orchestral literature. The fact that Sibelius' now most-performed sym...

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

For the premiere in London on May 14, 1832, he prepared a fundamental new version, and Mendelssohn continued to fine-tune details until the first printing of the score, which was published by Breitkop...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

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 the four movements en...

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 the four movements en...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...