Classical Sheet Music

The work "Les Jardins de Thémis" is both a tribute to my dear friends and outstanding duet partners, Florence Creugny and Alexandre Bernoud, to their most captivating, expressive, profound, and passio...

Manuel de Falla’s "Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy" is regarded as one of the masterpieces of our repertoire. Written in 1920, it is the composer’s only work originally conceived for the gu...

Rachmaninoff’s beautiful Vocalise is the final piece from the set of 14 Songs or Romances Op. 34 composed in 1915. It is essentially a Song Without Words. The composer invites the vocalist to sing usi...

Strummed Heat, Midnight Feet captures the slow, seductive build of a tropical night at an outdoor bar, where the air hangs heavy and warm, like a second skin. The music begins with a relaxed, breathy...

Serenata is based on a cantabile melody, mostly built on sixth intervals, with a scordatura in F that gives the piece a Lydian flavor. The central section changes to a minor pedal on the second degree...

This diptych in Provençal colours is dedicated to Maud Négrel, thanking her for her enthusiasm, kindness and professionalism, in memory of the Masterclass in "Le Beausset" in the Var region of France,...

Grammeno aims to highlight a melody. Supported by a harmonic framework to bring out its nostalgia, it requires a certain level of interpretation; however, it remains technically accessible.

Rechordatio is both an act of remembrance and a gesture of gratitude. The piece grows from two musical relationships that have been deeply meaningful to me: my encounters with the Italian composer Ang...

Life is music, and music is life. It may sound cliché, perhaps, but it's true. A playful musical theme slips into everyday life and sparks the imagination—and the fingers—of four guitarists wandering...

In 1858, César Franck was appointed principal organist and choirmaster at the Church of Sainte-Clotilde in France. It was during this period that he improvised and composed the Six pièces pour grand o...

I continue my musical exploration of the rivers and waterways of Europe with a new piece for guitar trio entitled Cassibile, named after a river in Sicily. Its lively, spirited rhythm is inspired by t...

The overture is a musical form often found in operas. Its purpose was to prepare the audience for the performance to come. Lully favored the French overture style, consisting of a slow–fast–slow seque...

Meteōros (μετέωρος) means "suspended aloft," "elevated," or "existing in the air." The word refers to something that is not fully anchored to the earth, a condition poised between weight and lightness...

Irrévérente was first conceived on a steel-string guitar before taking its final form as a work for solo classical guitar in Baltimore during the 2020 lockdown. At that time, my wife, Alexandra Iranfa...

They are a set of six keyboard suites Bach composed around the 1720s, the time when he was writing many important instrumental works, because along with the Inventions and Sinfonias and the 48 Prelude...

This suite of three short pieces is written for an intermediate-level guitar orchestra. Plénitude expresses well-being and inner peace. Evocative arpeggios support a lyrical melody imbued with gentlen...

Always Good To Me is a calm, reflective piece with a gentle, lyrical melody supported by a deep, sonorous bass line and smooth arpeggiated harmonies. The steady, pulse like 4/4 rhythm and expansive ke...

Claude Debussy once said that "Music begins where words are powerless to express." These words ring especially true when I am in the process of composing for the classical guitar. The six strings poss...