Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

If the name of this one isn't familiar to you, just think dancing hippos from "Fantasia." Everyone will recognize this delightful piece, and it's wonderfully fun to play. From Ponchielli's ballet "La...

This orchestration, which is completely original, is primarily based on the autograph manuscript. In accordance with the purpose of the ConcertMasters orchestra series, the orchestra size has been kep...

This is one of the most dramatic works in the symphonic repertoire! Whether you have seen Fantasia or not, one listen and this music strikes you as frightening and powerful! As true to the original as...

This is one of the most dramatic works in the symphonic repertoire! Whether you have seen Fantasia or not, one listen and this music strikes you as frightening and powerful! As true to the original as...

Swan Lake is probably one of the most famous ballets of all time, and this waltz is one of the most recognizable tunes in classical music! William Ryden's careful arrangement ensures that your orchest...

The Ride of the Valkyries refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a separate piece, the "Ride" is often...

Written in 1874, the orchestral tone poem Danse Macabre Op. 40 by Camille Saint -Saëns (1835-1921) premiered in January of 1875 and was not well received by the audience. 21st century scholar Roger Ni...

Brahms composed this work during the summer of 1880 as a tribute to the University of Breslau for conferring on him an honorary doctorate of philosophy. Known for his love of irony, Brahms based this...

While his Symphony No. 9 is better known, Antonín Dvorák's (1841-1904) Symphony No. 7 is argued by many to be his best symphonic work. Inspired in part by his friend Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No....

This Scherzo is included in Chaminade's Orchestral Suite and was later transcribed for piano solo. It fits the orchestra like a glove, sparkling color from all sections.

This march in C major begins with a stately melody with dotted-note rhythms, which is shared between the winds and strings. No section is ignored in Philip Clark's orchestration; every instrument has...

Finally, another option for bassoonists looking for a solo piece with orchestra! This is a fantastic arrangement of the Bassoon Sonata by Camille Saint-Saens which captures the essence of the original...

Preface Hubert Parry did not attend a music college, unlike his colleague C. V Stanford, who studied at Leipzig. True, Parry had been the youngest graduate in music (at 18) from Oxford – a record that...

Preface Composed in the mid-1860s during one of many frustrating points in the young composer's life, Pytor Tchaikovsky's TH 38 (Overture in C minor), never performed during his lifetime, is a testame...

Preface Granville Bantock was a composer caught between two musical cultures. The son of a prominent London surgeon, Bantock studied at the Royal Academy of Music while Tchaikovsky was still a rising...

Preface The music of Joachim Raff' has enjoyed a small renaissance in the last 20 years. For a long time, the once-famous musician was almost forgotten. When Pyotr Tchaikovsky attended the Bayreuth Fe...

Preface Arnold Bax was born and brought up in London in a wealthy and cultivated family. Showing early showed talent in music, he studied at the Royal Academy in London and in Dresden, where he first...

Preface Historians of American music have identified two New England Schools of music, though this terminology refers to historical movements, not formal arrangements. John Knowles Paine is considered...

ICB 19 (1888, rev. 1919) First edition published Margault [same imprint as Édition mutuelle], Paris, France, 1902 Orchestration solo piano with 2 flutes, piccolo, oboe, 2 B-flat clarinets, 2 bassoons,...

Foreword In Norway, it is called Fossegrim, in Sweden Strömkarlen or Näcken, and in Germany this legendary creature is known as Nöck: we are talking about a spirit or troll that lives in waterfalls, e...

Mendelssohn's Elijah is an oratorio for SATB soli, SATB chorus, Orchestra and Organ, with the text derived from the Lutheran Bible by Julius Schubring. The English version of the text was translated b...

The Famous One in the Leading Edition Beethoven spent a relatively long time on his 5th Symphony. Thus, first sketches can already be found from as early as 1804, four years before the work was premie...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...