Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

The three-act operetta FATINITZA by Franz von Suppé (1819-1895), based on a libretto to Daniel Auber's opera LA CIRCASSIENNE by Eugène Scribe, is based on historical events during the Crimean War. Pre...

The three-act operetta FATINITZA by Franz von Suppé (1819-1895), based on a libretto to Daniel Auber's opera LA CIRCASSIENNE by Eugène Scribe, is based on historical events during the Crimean War. Pre...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) began work on a Symphony in E-flat after the completion of his fifth. Intending his sketches to become his sixth symphony, the composer abandoned the work as too...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) began work on a Symphony in E-flat after the completion of his fifth. Intending his sketches to become his sixth symphony, the composer abandoned the work as too...

This orchestration for 11 wind instruments of three (Starodávný I, Dymák, and Starodávný II) of the six Lachian Dances (Lašské Tance) by Czech composer Leoš Janácek (1854-1928) has been completed by G...

Best known as the composer of the anthem JERUSALEM, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918), wrote a number of songs for choir and orchestra. One of these, BLEST PAIR OF SIRENS (AT A SOLEMN MUSIC),...

Ramuntcho was a 1897 novel by Pierre Loti for which Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed incidental music for a 1908 staged version. Pierné extracted two suites from the Basque-inspired incidental musi...

Ramuntcho was a 1897 novel by Pierre Loti for which Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed incidental music for a 1908 staged version. Pierné extracted two suites from the Basque-inspired incidental musi...

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) wrote the suite IN A NUTSHELL in 1916, originally scored for large orchestra, although both a solo piano and a 2-piano version followed that same year. The work consists of...

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) wrote the suite IN A NUTSHELL in 1916, originally scored for large orchestra, although both a solo piano and a 2-piano version followed that same year. The work consists of...

This is the fifth among thirteen string symphonies written between 1821 and 1823, when Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was twelve to fourteen years old. Like the other twelve, it was written as a tribut...

At the precocious age of fourteen, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scribbled out his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major. He wrote a second, this time longer, double piano concerto the foll...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (BE SILENT, WINDS) is a Latin motet by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) The uncertain date of its composition has provoked much debate, although careful study of the work sugge...

Belgium singer, actor, and composer Jacques Brel (1929-1978) wrote the music and lyrics for Ne me quitte pas (If You Go Away) in 1959. The song was later adapted with English lyrics by Rod McKuen, and...

Belgium singer, actor, and composer Jacques Brel (1929-1978) wrote the music and lyrics for Ne me quitte pas (If You Go Away) in 1959. The song was later adapted with English lyrics by Rod McKuen, and...

The 1962 song TI GUARDERÓ NEL CUORE, known internationally by the title MORE, was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero for the Italian documentary film MONDO CANE. Winning the Grammy Award for Be...

The 1962 song TI GUARDERÓ NEL CUORE, known internationally by the title MORE, was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero for the Italian documentary film MONDO CANE. Winning the Grammy Award for Be...

SEID UMSCHLUNGEN, MILLIONEN (BE EMBRACED, YOU MILLIONS), OP. 443, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1892. It was originally requested for a journalists' ball by his friend Julius Stettenheim...

SEID UMSCHLUNGEN, MILLIONEN (BE EMBRACED, YOU MILLIONS), OP. 443, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1892. It was originally requested for a journalists' ball by his friend Julius Stettenheim...

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS INTERMEZZO (TAUSEND UN EINE NACHT INTERMEZZO) is named after the opera INDIGO UN DIE VIERTZIG RAEUBER (INDIGO AND THE FORTY THIEVES) by Johann Strauss II. Premiered on February...

THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS INTERMEZZO (TAUSEND UN EINE NACHT INTERMEZZO) is named after the opera INDIGO UN DIE VIERTZIG RAEUBER (INDIGO AND THE FORTY THIEVES) by Johann Strauss II. Premiered on February...

Compiled and arranged by Hungarian-born conductor and composer Antal Dorati (1906-1988), LA VIE PARISIENNE: OVERTURE ON THEMES BY OFFENBACH is among the most delightfully charming light works in the o...

Ernst Toch's (1887-1964) CIRCUS: AN OVERTURE, written in 1953 is meant to evoke the atmosphere of a circus and recalls some of the most common types of music heard there. The piece opens and closes wi...

The development of the music that Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote for the orchestral suite, Op. 60, tells a complicated history. Originally, he and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal collaborated...

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278, by Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was written originally for piano in 1870. This arrangement for orchestra of the fast polka (polka schnell) was completed by Austrian composer, arrang...