Classical Sheet Music for Chamber Orchestra

It is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute" was composed in 1791 for Emanuel Schikaneder's Freihaustheater in Vienna and combines fairy-tal...

In contrast to many composerswho only began to write symphonies in their maturity, Hans Werner Henze composed his First Symphony when he was 20. Henze himself later described this original version as...

Georg Friedrich Handel’s Concerto a due cori, HWV 334, belongs to his mature Baroque orchestral period. The work is characterized by its monumental structure and its dialogic style, which is based on...

Georg Friedrich Handel’s Concerto a due cori, HWV 334, belongs to his mature Baroque orchestral period. The work is characterized by its monumental structure and its dialogic style, which is based on...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 is one of the most significant works of the Baroque era. It was composed at the beginning of the 18th century and dedicated to the Margrave of Brande...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 is one of the most significant works of the Baroque era. It was composed at the beginning of the 18th century and dedicated to the Margrave of Brande...

Written in 1891 as Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was considering Jeannette Thurber's generous offer to move to the United States and serve as director of her National Conservatory of Music in New York, C...

The first performance of I VESPRI SICILIANI (THE SICILIAN VESPERS), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

Written between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano No. 2 remains one of the composer's most enduringly popular pieces and cemented his reputation as composer o...

Originally written by Debussy for piano four hands, PETITE SUITE has been transcribed many times, with this orchestral version by Henri Büsser being the most well-known. Perhaps due to a request from...

Saint-Saens' Le Carnaval des Animaux hat eine eigenartige Geschichte. Es dürfte vielleicht der einzige Fall sein, dass ein Komponist ein Werk nach wenigen Aufführungen zurückzog (abgesehen von einem k...

Musorgskij's music was slow to be recognized outside of Russia for its masterly and forward-looking qualities. To this day his compositions are heard largely in arrangements; many are still quite unkn...