Classical Sheet Music

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach wurde am 21. Juni 1732 zu Leipzig geboren. Er war der älteste Sohn J. S. Bachs aus zweiter Ehe mit Anna Magdalena Wilcken. Nach dem Besuch der Thomasschule - seine musi...

Das Baryton war das Lieblingsinstrument des Fürsten Nikolaus Esterhazy, des Brotherrn Joseph Haydns. Es handelt sich hier um ein transponierendes Instrument, welches gemäss alter Tradition Violinschlü...

The final work of Ernest Bloch's Jewish Cycle, "Schelomo" (Hebrew for "Solomon") features the cello acting as the voice of King Solomon. The liturgical character of this work requires the distinction...

This is the first of Debussy's three sonatas for cello. Composed in three movements of varying styles, this beautiful and interesting piece became one of the most performed cello sonatas of the 20th c...

The guiding principle of this edition by Janos Starker is to provide suggestions led by musical considerations based on the underlying rules of string playing. It is hoped that this edition will encou...

Brahms famously described this piece as "certainly not difficult to play", and while easier than some of his other very challenging works, it is still a quality performance piece. The SONATA NO 1 is w...

César Franck composed the Sonata in A Major as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe in 1886, who gave the first performance on December 16. Evidence suggests, however, that Franck originally envi...

From Janos Starker: DON QUIXOTE by Richard Strauss is based on Cervantes's saga of the adventures of the Don, and is one of our major cello works. When I first performed it with Fritz Reiner and the C...

Georg Eduard Goltermann, Komponist und Cellist, lebte von 1824 bis 1898. Goltermann komponierte drei Ouvertüren, Lieder und Orgelvorspiele. Bekannter ist er jedoch für seine Cello-Werke, bestehend aus...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) concerto no. 2 for cello and orchestra (2013) is in five movements performed without a break. It begins with a swinging Berceuse, followed by a very quick, virtuosic Presto in 5...

Harri Wessman (b. 1949) composed ten easy pieces for young cellists and pianists in 1991. The idiomatic approach to writing music makes the pieces easy to adopt. The cellist should be acquinted with t...

The composer tells (2001): "Pianist Martti Rautio called me at the beginning of the year 2001, and told to my surprise that he has found among the notes of his cellist father Erkki a sonata by me and...

Ferrari’s Sonatas opus 5 are especially interesting because they are among the first publications for cello solo and accompaniment, composed entirely in classical style and particularly valuable becau...

Ferrari’s Sonatas opus 5 are especially interesting because they are among the first publications for cello solo and accompaniment, composed entirely in classical style and particularly valuable becau...

Alexis Magito's sonatas belong to a small collection of cello sonatas composed by Dutch composers. The current edition contains biographical facts about the composer that were unknown until very recen...

Alexis Magito's sonatas belong to a small collection of cello sonatas composed by Dutch composers. The current edition contains biographical facts about the composer that were unknown until very recen...

3 Violoncelles (Ronchini)