Classical Sheet Music for String Orchestra

A famous theme from Mozart's horn concerto is adapted for strings with this new teaching and performance edition from Lauren Keiser. Treat your students to the genius of Mozart with this beautifully r...

This cantabile piece works great as a short lyrical interlude in a program. Written for the advancing intermediate ensemble, the score features expanded use of rhythms, ranges and keys, but technical...

Taken from the second movement of the Serenade (and similar to the minuets of his idol, Mozart), Tchaikovsky's Valse also resembles many of his own ballet movements. Lauren Keiser's adapatation is des...

Can be performed alone or as part of Don Freund's Poem Symphonies Set I, a cycle of works, each one based on the poetry of a different poet. Gold was inspired by the poem of the same name by Donald Ha...

Johann Christoph Graupner (1683 - 1760) was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who was a contemporary of Bach, Telemann and Handel. His short Intrada in C, written originally f...

The title Luna is the Latin word for moon, which is the subject of this lyrical original string orchestra work by composer Yukiko Nishimura. In a lilting waltz style, the composer has described the in...

Prokoviev wrote his Bb symphony in short form within a month, 16 years after his last symphony. He used sketches he had compiled in his ubiquitous notebooks. Written in 1944, its four movements are in...

This arrangement uses the main themes of the second and third movements of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. It opens with the haunting Adagio sostenuto. At measure 16, the third movement's rhapsod...

Scarlatti's Sonata in B Minor, K. 87, L. 33 is a plaintive work originally written for keyboard. This beautiful transcription by Yukiko Nishimura presents the piece in the key of a minor, making the m...

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written in 1937 and premiered that year in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). It was a major success with an ovation lasting over 30 minutes. The symphony is approximately 4...

From the larger collaborative work Yet Another Set of Variations (on a Theme of Paganini) written by a number of composers to celebrate Leonard Slatkin's 75th birthday, this string orchestra work was...

Originally composed in 1989 for a commission by the Northern Virginia Honors Orchestra, David Ott revised the work in 2020. Movements: I. Joyride on the Old Milwuakee RR; II. Sunday Stroll Hand in Han...

Originally composed in 1989 for a commission by the Northern Virginia Honors Orchestra, David Ott revised the work in 2020. Movements: I. Joyride on the Old Milwuakee RR; II. Sunday Stroll Hand in Han...

A festive spirit of refreshment reigns in this delightful musical depiction of Magnolia Park, a wayside of spectacular shade trees and water springs that offer relief from the oppressive heat of south...

A festive spirit of refreshment reigns in this delightful musical depiction of Magnolia Park, a wayside of spectacular shade trees and water springs that offer relief from the oppressive heat of south...

Composer David Ott takes a musically captivating look at four types of birds in his highly creative series entitled, 'One for the Birds'. Movements: I. Relentless Woodpecker (driving and infectious);...

Originally composed in 2003 for a commission by the Central Iowa Honors Orchestra, David Ott revised the work in 2020. Movements: I. Andante moderato; II. Lento; III. Allegro