Classical Vocal Sheet Music

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) began to work on his POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEM OF LOVE AND THE SEA), OP. 19, in 1882. The composer chose two poems written by his friend Maurice Bouchor as source...

The operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) was written in 1905 by Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (1870-1948), with a libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein. The story tells of a rich widow...

George Thompson, a collector of folk tunes, commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) to arrange a selection of the songs he had gathered. In 1814, they were first published in a volume titled "A...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) originally wrote Deux Mélodies Hébraïques (Two Hebrew Songs) for voice and piano for soprano Alvina Alvi, who premiered the two songs in June of 1914. While both songs includ...

Klavier, Gesang

The Beginning of the Day by Anne Boyd for children's opera: children's voices, piano, percussion. 35'

Johann Sebastian Bach's arrangements of the '69 Sacred Songs' from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire a...

Ilkka Kuusisto's (b. 1933) Do not stand at my grave and weep for soprano and piano is composed in 2020. The famous and powerful poem of anonymous writer consoles at the moment of seemingly absolute lo...

Published for the first time in 2024, Einojuhani Rautavaara's (1928-2016) Hajoaminen (Finnish for Dissolution, 1956) is set to four grim poems by Finnish poet Lassi Nummi (1928-2012). Plaintive motifs...

Composer Kaj Chydenius (1939-2024) and Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001) celebrated their friendship with collaboration, the song cycle Pohjoiset vuodenajat (The Northern Seasons, 1989) being...

Lotta Wennäkoski (b. 1970) composed her song cycle I stället för vingar (Instead of wings, 2014-2016) to poems of Eva-Stina Byggmästar. The original suite is for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. The compos...

Immerse yourself in the poetic and melodious world of French vocal music with "Le Sable Du Sablier", set to the evocative poetry of Louise de Vilmorin. Published by the renowned Amphion editions, this...

Text in French, German and English. Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, English words by Percy Pinkerton. Contents: Le Dromadaire (The Dromedary) - La Chèvre du Thibet (The Goat from Tibet) - La Sauterell...

Les Hores: Dos Poemes de S. Espriu for voice and clarinet. On January 5, 1938, in the middle of the civil war, the excellent Majorcan poet Bartomeu Rossello-Porcel passed away in the Sanatorium of Bru...

'Withdrawal' has been comissioned by Japanese cellist Kumi Kondo in 2003. The piece is written for Cello and Female voice and can be performed by one or two musicians. The piece has been performed sev...