Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...

Immediately after finishing his First Symphony in B flat major op. 38, Robert Schumann wrote the present D minor Symphony in 1841. Despite its successful world premiere at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 4...

The six last and musically most important symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext edition. Editors Cliff Eisen and Henrik Wiese present a text-critical authentic musical...

“The Blue Danube“ is said to be Austria’s secret anthem, and alongside the “Radetzky March” it is the traditional encore piece at the annual New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Al...

Johann Strauß Sohn revolutionized the Viennese waltz in the 19th century and made it popular all over the world. His works, such as the famous waltzes "The Beautiful Blue Danube" op. 314 and "Tales fr...

In the fall of 1833, Friedrich Wieck confidently announced his daughter’s new composition: "She is now writing a major concerto that is attracting the attention of connoisseurs." At this time, Clara S...

I am now working on a new symphony, entirely in the Finnish spirit, wrote 25-year-old Jean Sibelius to his fiancée, Aino Järnefelt, in April 1891. Just one year later, his work for soprano and bariton...

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The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

In Volume VII,4 of the Hindemith Complete Edition the cantatas „Mainzer Umzug“. Volksvergnügen für drei Singstimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester (1962) on a text by Carl Zuckmayer and Paul Hindemith...

This edition presents the first modern score of David Popper's first cello concerto, written during his time at the Löwenberg Court. While the solo part is a classic example of the 19th century virtuo...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

The text for the work was derived from a variety of poems by Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822) as suggested by Mre. Wharton. The poems used are: Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Good-Night Hymn to Intellectua...