Classical Sheet Music

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...

The reason for the composition of this work is well-known: Bach's encounter with Frederick the Great and the story of the 'royal theme' which the King of Prussia 'deigned to play' on a pianoforte and...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'La Traviata' (The Wayward Woman), based on Alexandre Dumas' novel 'La Dame aux camélias', has become one of the most successful opera in music history for Verdi broke new groun...

The first movement of my Piano Quintet is filled with drama and passion. Its atmosphere can be related to my Second Symphony Johannes Angelos. The second movement is a set of polyphonic variations in...

Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...

Gerne überraschte Mutter Teresa ihre Gesprächspartner damit, dass sie ihnen anstelle einer herkömmlichen Visitenkarte ein kleines Kärtchen überreichte, auf dem ein kurzer Text zu lesen war, beginnend...

Wilfried Hiller arranged three dances from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the famous klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman. The version for clarinet and four violoncellos was first performed by him toget...

Knights of the strange is a work of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant wh...

'My fascination with the culture of the Navajo Native Americans and their healing ceremonies based on harmony and beauty motivated me to listen to ethnographic recordings of their songs, which are cus...

'My fascination with the culture of the Navajo Native Americans and their healing ceremonies based on harmony and beauty motivated me to listen to ethnographic recordings of their songs, which are cus...

Much has been speculated on the instrumentation of this contrapuntal masterpiece since Bach's death. For a long time, the fragmentary work was regarded as a piano work but since the early 20th century...

Much has been speculated on the instrumentation of this contrapuntal masterpiece since Bach's death. For a long time, the fragmentary work was regarded as a piano work but since the early 20th century...

Kleinbesetzte Kunstmusik von Georg Kreisler (Text und Musik): Kreisler, der 2011 starb, schrieb kurz vor seinem Tod das 'Untergangssextett'. Bis auf die letzten Takte hat er es vollendet, sein Landsma...

Partchs Titel And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma ist eine Hommage an seine kalifornische Heimat. 4 Jahrzehnte verbrachte der Komponist - mit 2 jeweils 6-jährigen Unterbrechungen - in der B...

Partchs Titel And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma ist eine Hommage an seine kalifornische Heimat. 4 Jahrzehnte verbrachte der Komponist - mit 2 jeweils 6-jährigen Unterbrechungen - in der B...

This arrangement written by Nicolas Prost in 2016 is a free reconstitution of the lost work Hymne sacré pour les instruments de Sax (Sacred song for the instruments of Sax), which was first performed...

The Fairy-Tale Narratives (Märchenerzählungen) for B-flat Clarinet (ad libitum Violin), Viola and Piano, op. 132, belong to the few Schumann works that were composed, revised and published in a short...

1941 komponierte Harry Partch die erste Fassung von Barstow, die originale Besetzung bestand aus Singstimme und Adapted Guitar. In den Folgejahren revidierte Partsch das Stück mehrere Male, bis 1968 d...

Even with its instrumentation which may seem unusual at first glance, the spirit and symphonic character of the pioneering work is preserved. Although the piece does not provide a direct opportunity f...

Yürüyen Kösk zeichnet eine bekannte Episode nach, die Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, den Gründer der modernen Türkei, als fortschrittlichen Naturfreund zeigt: Zur Rettung einer Platane ließ er 1930 ein Haus u...