Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

Das Erbe deutscher Musik setzt die Tradition der deutschen musikalischen Denkmälerpublikationen fort und veröffentlicht wichtige Werke der deutschen Musikgeschichte in kritischer und zugleich praktisc...

Giacomo Puccini's world-famous aria 'Nessun Dorma' from the opera Turandot is undoubtedly one of the most moving and triumphant melodies in all of music history. With this first-class edition from Goo...

Jacques Offenbach's (1819-1880) opéra bouffe in three acts, La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen) parodies the Greek myth of Helen and Paris' elopement, which set off the Trojan War according to Homer...

The opera LA FORZA DEL DESTINO by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was written in 1862 and premiered in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Russia on November 10 of that same year. Following ma...

LOHENGRIN, first performed in 1850, is a Romantic opera in three acts, written by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Based on the legendary 13th century romance of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, who...

Diane et Endymion is a tragédie lyrique in three acts about the mythological love story of the goddess Diana for the shepherd Endymion. The libretto written by the almost unknown Jean-François Espic c...

By the time Le trouvère premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1857, Giuseppe Verdi had first-hand knowledge of the unique demands of French theater. He had adapted his earlier work I Lombardi alla prima cro...

The prelude to the opera "Lohengrin", which premiered in Weimar in 1850 and marks the transition from Wagner's romantic opera to through-composed music drama, represents a special developmental step a...

When Carl Maria von Weber composed the overtura to "Der Freischütz" in May 1820, it was the final musical building block for his opera. In this respect, Weber was able to perfectly trace and condense...

Der Band enthält das Vorwort zur Werkgenese, die Besetzungsangaben mit Angabe des Stimmumfangs, den Editionsartikel, Hinweise zur Aufführungspraxis und den Fassungsartikel. Dem Notentext folgt der Rev...

Carl Maria von Weber‘s fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz‘. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

The Pastoral Mass op. 24 was first published on 24 . It was performed in Augsburg in December 1851 and has since become an integral part of Christmas church music in Bavaria. In addition to this mass,...

In the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E flat D 950. The reason for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to se...

1815 – das war ein Jahr, in dem Schubert trotz aller erdrückenden Lehrer-Pflichten unermüdlich neue Werke schuf. Neben etwa 140 neuen Liedern entstanden die zweite und die dritte Sinfonie, vier Bühnen...

Die im Juni und Juli 1816 entstandene Messe in C (D 452) ist für die Lichtentaler Kirche geschrieben und dort wohl auch zuerst aufgeführt worden, wie aus der Dedikation an den Regens chori der Kirche,...

Anders als die vier frühen Messen hat Schubert seine fünfte nicht auf einen konkreten Auftrag, für eine bestimmte Aufführung hin geschrieben – es ging ihm offensichtlich darum, mit ihr seine inzwische...

Franz Schubert's 'Stabat Mater' D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental. This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer's auto...

The edition of Franz Schubert's "Magnificat" D 486 is based on the composer's autograph score and for the first time takes into account the performance material authorised by Schubert. It thus offers...

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod's oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effecti...

Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise' in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper,...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F" minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

As an acclaimed opera composer, Georges Bizet admitted that he had no real sensibility for sacred music. His Te Deum is nonetheless a truly fascinating and highly expressive work. From the majestic "T...