Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

The Serenata in tre parti Parnasso in festa was first performed on the occasion of the wedding between Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange in March 1734. The music is largely based on the En...

'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' is by far Handel's most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Hand...

With his 'La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' ('Beauty Reformed in the Triumph of Time and Enlightenment'), HWV 46a, the 22-year-old Handel notched up one of his greatest suc...

In the autograph, the 'little Cecilia Ode', composed in September 1739, is superscribed with 'Song'; the title used in contemporary sources, such as the textual source by John Dryden, and taken over b...

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

Haydns 'Abschiedssinfonie' ist eines der meistgespielten Werke der sinfonischen Literatur. Der populäre Titel stammt nicht vom Komponisten: Er bezieht sich auf den Finalsatz, an dessen Ende (Adagio) d...

Zusammen mit den Londoner und Pariser Sinfonien gehören Haydns Sturm-und-Drang-Sinfonien zu den meistgespielten Werken des Komponisten. Unter ihnen befinden sich nicht nur Meisterwerke wie die 'Abschi...

Urtext aus/from: Joseph Haydn Werke, G. Henle Verlag München

This edition clarifies a performance aspect of Haydn's Symphony in G major that has long been misunderstood: in m. 1 of the second movement (Largo) the viola, violoncello and several wind instrument p...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 79 and 81, Haydn's D-minor Symphony Hob. I:80 belongs to a set of symphonies that he completed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his ta...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 79 and 81, Haydn's D-minor Symphony Hob. I:80 belongs to a set of symphonies that he completed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his ta...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 80 and 81, Haydn's Symphony in F major Hob. I:79 belongs to a group of works that he composed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy who wish...

Haydn composed his Symphony no. 76 at the same time as his Symphonies nos. 77 and 78 for a planned trip to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H. C. Robbins Landon calls these works the 'Engli...

Haydn composed his Symphony no. 76 at the same time as his Symphonies nos. 77 and 78 for a planned trip to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H. C. Robbins Landon calls these works the 'Engli...

Associating the term 'Sturm und Drang' with Haydn's creative period from ca. 1765 to ca. 1772 is considered controversial among scholars, but it does describe a unique group of works within his sympho...

Associating the term 'Sturm und Drang' with Haydn's creative period from ca. 1765 to ca. 1772 is considered controversial among scholars, but it does describe a unique group of works within his sympho...

Letters of the composer have come down to us only on a few of Haydn's symphonies, amongst them the 'Laudon' Symphony Hob. I:69. In one of these letters, Haydn agrees to the publisher's suggestion to n...

Letters of the composer have come down to us only on a few of Haydn's symphonies, amongst them the 'Laudon' Symphony Hob. I:69. In one of these letters, Haydn agrees to the publisher's suggestion to n...

Joseph Haydn wrote Symphony No. 22 in E-flat major in 1764 as part of his tenure as Vice-Kapellmeister at the Esterházy court. The work is unique because of its instrumentation with two cors anglais:...