Classical Sheet Music

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

This edition of the Violin Concerto in A minor is tailored to today's common style of violin playing as well as historically informed performance practice. Two violin parts are arranged, according to...

Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...

The Belgian violinist, Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), with his impressive blend of virtuosity and poetry, was a great admirer of the young Debussy's music who led the Paris première of his only string quar...

Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012) numbers among the most prominent pianists of the 20th Century. That he was also a composer is less well known, though he wrote a whole series of works, notably for his o...

The Danish Rhapsody for violin and organ by Naji Hakim is an evocation of his Sakskøbing Præludier for organ (2005). Here the 12 psalms are varied and linked in the same order and in one movement, sym...

Rosenblatt composed 'Introduction and Siberian Blues' as the 2nd day round's obligatory piece for Victor Tretyakov's Second International Violin Competition in Krasnoyarsk. A slow and lyrical introduc...

Minimalistische Patterns und feingewobene Klangstrukturen schaffen eine reizvolle Klangwelt für zwei Violinen. Anno Schreier schrieb die vier Miniaturen als Vorstudien zu seiner Oper über den Logiker...

Four short pieces for violin and piano by Lili Boulanger have survived and are brought together in this book. In three instances the editors Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter have chosen to base...

The work is a spider-fingered scherzo which translates the concept of ‘Romantic irony’ into a modern tonal language. Mysterious creatures fl it back and forth and run on the spot before breaking off o...

Threnos is a lament for solo violin dedicated to Lars Vogt: highly expressive, characterized by dramatic intensity and with an uplifting ending. A shorter but equally striking contemporary piece for t...

Violine und Basso continuo (Cembalo, Klavier); Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)

Whilst Stravinsky himself did not know several of the people whom he was commissioned to write memorials for, in this case it seems Stravinsky did have a connection to Onnou, as the Pro Arte Quartet h...

Herausgegeben von Richard Gwilt. RG editions