Classical Sheet Music

Movements: 1. Ouvertüre 2. Marsch 3. Tanz der Zuckerfee 4. Russischer Tanz 5. Arabischer Tanz 6. Chinesischer Tanz 7. Tanz der Rohrflöten 8. Blumenwalzer

The Dance Of The Jesters was composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens. The ballet is not based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, but on a contemporary Russian fantasy-play Sneg...

Wagner on Stage uses extracts from four best-loved of Wagner's operas: Tannhäuser, Götterdämmerung, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Richard Wagner certainly wrote the most dramatic opera...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

The Jupiter Hymn is taken from Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, the fourth movement of the suite The Planets, written by the English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) between 1914 and 1917. The premie...

Willis sind feenhafte Wesen. Wenn eine Frau unverheiratet an gebrochenem Herzen stirbt, zwingen sie den Herzensbrecher dazu, sich zu Tode zu tanzen. Diese Legende wählte Giacomo Puccini für seine erst...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

Handel?s opera Scipio was written in 1725 and performed the following year in the King?s Theatre, London. Following Handel?s death his operas fell into obscurity until the 1960?s when they experienced...

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi (music) and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto).

Franz Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies are characterised by melancholy, great expressiveness and wonderful gypsy rhythms. No. 2 is the best known of all, mainly thanks to the use of various passages fo...

Thomas Doss orchestrated this inspiring and very playable transcription of Christus factus est (WAB 11), the motet written by Bruckner in 1884, for wind orchestra. After Messe für den Gründonnerstag f...

Even the most basic understanding of Western music must include an intimate familiarity with the magnificent body of works by J. S. Bach. The charming beauty of the ARIOSO from BWV 156 must almost cer...

The Adagio is based on a manuscript that was discovered in the Dresden State Library after the Second World War by Remo Giazotto, a Milanese musicologist who was working on Albinoni's biography at the...

French composer Daniel François Esprit Aubers extensive outputconsisted mainly of operas, but unfortunately today only two of theseare still well known, including the comic opera Fra Diavolo. The stor...

Mit dem Titel Mozart's Greatest Hits! verspricht der Toshio Mashima nicht zu viel. Mit Themen aus fünf der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Mozartthemen, verpackt in ein meisterliches Arrangement für Bla...

Around 1914 Gustav Holst (1874-1934) wrote the seven-part work The Planets, which is still the most performed classical work from the pen of an Englishman. The magnificent chorale-like theme from the...

Una Furtiva Lagrima is a brilliant arrangement by Jacob de Haan, of the aria from Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) for concert band. The subject of this song is the powe...

The European Hymn is the hymn not only of the European Union but of Europe in a broader sense. The melody has been taken from the Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1823.In the last movement...