Classical Sheet Music

Shortly after the Second World War, Richard Strauss, then 80 years old, had remained safe in his villa in Garmisch, though cultural life in Europe had come to a complete standstill. The American occup...

Richard Strauss composed his second horn concerto about 60 years after his first horn concerto, having recently considered that his actual creativity had come to an end with his opera Capriccio. The l...

Ravel’s plans for a piano concerto can be traced back to 1906, but it was not until early 1929 that the composer began working on it in earnest. Since its successful premiere in January 1932, the Conc...

The Song of Fingal, Op. 17b, for mixed choir and orchestra is an arrangement of the fourth movement from the Four Songs for Women’s Choir, horns, and harp, Op. 17, which Brahms composed in 1879 at the...

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna

Johannes Brahms composed the Tragic Overture op. 81 in the summer of 1880 in Ischl, and the work was premiered that same year on December 26 under the baton of Hans Richter at the Vienna Musikverein....

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms-Gesamtausgabe of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna EB 6043 is printed in score ; for performance two copies are needed

Breitkopf Urtext after the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna Piano reduction by the composer

Choir: SATB / Orchestration: 2.2.2. - 2.2.3.0. - Pk - Strings

Piano reduction by the composer

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

The aim of the critical-practical edition is to bring the performance material for this standard work of Baroque music literature into line with the current state of knowledge and to satisfy practical...

The aim of the critical-practical edition is to bring the performance material for this standard work of Baroque music literature into line with the current state of knowledge and to satisfy practical...

formerly "Concerto grosso No. 26

orch 16'

For soprano, bass and orchestra. 20th Sunday after Trinity [S,B,Orch] 28' Soli: SB - 0.0.Ob d'am.0.0. - 0.0.0.0. - (Vc picc) - Bc - (Haverkampf, Ulrich)

Orchestration: 1 oboe, 1 bassoon. Strings (violas divided) and b.c.