Classical Sheet Music

Encouraged by Muzio Clementi, the head of a distinguished publishing house in London, Beethoven transformed his Violin Concerto into a Piano Concerto, but retained the cadenzas to the first and third...

Beethoven wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano during a period of only fifteen years (from 1797 to 1812). It is impressive how in this genre he again pursued the principle of finding a new model for...

Published in 1676 in London, the Neapolitan composer's sixty-nine short pieces are grouped together in twelve suites.

Although it has not been possible to identify the composer of the 'Eight Little Preludes and Fugues' Alfred Dürr writes in his preface to this edition 'Since the value of a musical work is in no way d...

To Bach's 15 well known two-part inventions another third part has been added by the arranger in a free and imitating way. Thus it is possible to train playing three-part pieces (which very often is u...

Four become one? What initially sounds like an impossible task (especially as the string ensemble still has to be counted as "five") turns out to be a stroke of luck for the organ literature in the ca...

William Boyce is one of the most important composers of the English late Baroque period. The London artist, who was awarded the title of "Master of the King's Music", left behind an extensive catalog...

The second in Glass' trilogy about men who changed the world, Satyagraha's sub-text is politics. The opera is semi-narrative in form and deals with Mahatma Gandhi's early years in South Africa and his...

Zum 100. Todestag von Camille Saint- Saëns hat die international renommierte Konzertorganistin Shin-Young Lee sein berühmtestes Werk, den Karneval der Tiere, für die Orgel bearbeitet. 'Schwan', 'Schil...

Andante festivo is originally composed for string quartet. This solemn, hymn-like composition fits perfectly for the organ. Pianist, cantor-organist Esa Ylönen's transcription is based on Karl Ekman's...

Samuel Wesley's Choral Song And Fugue is a delightful work for solo Organ, edited here by Walter Emery.

Eugène Bozza's Le Campanile for Alto Saxophone and Piano.

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...