Intermediate Classical Music (Romantic) Sheet Music

The fact that Chopin's waltzes are no longer dance music, but refined concert pieces for performance in salon or concert hall, emerges nowhere as sharply as in the 'Grande Valse' op. 42. The main them...

Chopin published his Scherzi nos. 1-3 at more-or-less regular intervals, in 1835, 1837 and 1840 - almost as if he'd planned them in advance. He published his fourth and final work in this genre after...

The composition and publication of the first two volumes of Liszt's 'Années de pèlerinage' are closely interlinked. Barely a year after returning from Switzerland, Liszt and his companion Marie d'Agou...

The seventh Hungarian Rhapsody, which was issued in 1853, is based on three themes from Hungarian folk music: an older instrumental melody and two peasant songs. We find here all the typical character...

Schubert composed his piano sonata in a minor in May 1825; it is one of Schubert's few piano works that was published during his lifetime. The four movements are expressive but each in its own way: a...

Unlike the first two volumes of the Années de pèlerinage, which are based on travel impressions from Switzerland and Italy, the third volume from Liszt’s late period, published in 1883, is more of a s...

'Do you not know Jean Paul, our great writer? I have learnt more counterpoint from him than from my music teacher'. His 'Vorschule der Ästhetik' with its extensive treatment of humour probably occasio...

Franz Schubert's scherzos were right at the beginning of a development that, in the course of the 19th century, resulted in the separation of the scherzo from the sonata and its emancipation as an ind...

Franz Schubert's Impromptus Op. post 142 (D 935) are among his most frequently played piano works and have found a permanent place in music lessons and in the concert repertoire. The Wiener Urtext Edi...

Finlandia, Op. 26, by composer Jean Sibelius, is one of the most significant works in the Finnish symphonic repertoire. Composed in 1899, it emerged against the backdrop of the national awakening unde...

Finlandia, Op. 26, by composer Jean Sibelius, is one of the most significant works in the Finnish symphonic repertoire. Composed in 1899, it emerged against the backdrop of the national awakening unde...

This fine collection of little masterpieces for cello and piano forms a showcase for the composer Edward Elgar. There is no great virtuosity needed to do justice to the melodious and sometimes ingenio...

Fauré's exquisite 'Fantaisie' is one of the jewels in chamber music for which we are indebted to his time at the Paris Conservatoire. The flute professor there, Paul Taffanel, had asked his colleague...

The Trio in G major / E minor op. 103 by the Oppenheim composer and pupil of Max Regers can be assigned to the composer's late work on the basis of the opus number, even if no year of composition and...

When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and 'Harmoniemusik' wind ensembles was already long gone. He was probably inspir...

Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced several works in a row for him over a brief period o...

Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in...

This lively dance opens the final act of Bizet's fabulous opera, Carmen.

Die Élégie op. 24 entstand in ihrer ersten Fassung mit Klavier- begleitung im Jahr 1880 und ist Jules Loëb gewidmet, der das Werk am 15. Dezember 1883 bei einem Konzert der Société Nationale in Paris...

This is an arrangement of Carl Maria von Weber’s ‘Invitation to the Dance’. The original composition is in D-flat major and is unplayable for pupils and music lovers. Weber also wrote very demanding r...

This is an arrangement of Carl Maria von Weber’s ‘Invitation to the Dance’. The original composition is in D-flat major and is unplayable for pupils and music lovers. Weber also wrote very demanding r...

Scored at our request for brass soloist with piano accompaniment, this version of Richard Wagner's striking theme vividly portrays the mythical Valkyrie carrying their heroic dead to Valhalla on dashi...

These 9 grade 4-6 editions are culled from Peter Illych Tschaikowsky's symphonic and piano repertoire. All are playable on a low A marimba, and 5 are also playable on vibes.