Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

These eight Transcendent Sketches of high pianistic standard illustrate various facets of hypertonality by alluding to different, simultaneously physiological and planetary movements ("outbursts", "sw...

The Sonata No. 9 from 1947 is Prokofiev’s last originally composed and completed piano work. It was premiered by the leading Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter. The four movements in a cyclical connect...

The edition contains the Waltz from the opera War and Peace Op. 91 as well as the Contredanse and the Mephisto Waltz from the music for the film ’Lermontov’ arranged for piano by the composer himself...

Sergei Rachmaninov's second book of Préludes, op. 32, was written in the summer of 1910 at his family's idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy, rural area inspired the composer to this wonderf...

The composition '1.X.1905,' generally referred to as a 'sonata,' stems from the autumn of 1905, the peak of the riots between the Czech- and German-speaking populations in Janáček's hometown Brno. Rea...

Piano music occupies a small, but nevertheless musically important place in Janácek's oeuvre. Our edition of 'In the Mists' by the seasoned Janácek editor Jirí Zahrádka is an impressive example of thi...

The four-movement Suite op. 14 was composed in 1916 and was one of Bartók's favourite piano works throughout his life. Unlike in his other works for piano of these years, he did not use any folksong m...

Based on the Prélude in c sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2 written in 1892 that quickly became world-famous, Rachmaninoff composed a further two collections of Préludes in the years up to 1910. These were also...

Arnold Schönberg's Piano Pieces op. 11 are a milestone in the development of piano music. Schönberg had also already composed other atonal works, but always for voice with sung text. By contrast the P...

Schönberg's Suite op. 25 of 1923 refers to pre-classical forms in its movement titles Präludium, Gavotte-Musette, Intermezzo, Menuett-Trio and Gigue, yet at the same time it was the first work to be...

The Eight Etudes op. 42 by Alexander Scriabin were composed during a phase of great productivity. For many years, teaching commitments had hampered the composer. Gradually, he was able to dispose of t...

My Magic Garden II is the sequel to the piano book My Magic Garden I. In this collection there are 18 different atmospheric pieces for piano with 2 hands and 4 pieces for piano with 4 hands. The 22 w...

Band 2 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff präsentiert die Klavierkompositionen aus den 1890er Jahren auf der Grundlage des ungekürzten Notentexts aus...

Ein Muss für die genaue Auseinandersetzung mit den Rachmaninoff-Préludes! Band 3 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff veröffentlicht im Anhang erstmals...

Rachmaninow fand es Zeit seines Lebens recht schwierig, kleine Stücke für Klavier zu komponieren. In einem Brief an N. S. Morozov (vom 30. Juli/11. August 1911) schreibt er in Bezug auf den Beginn sei...

Béla Bartók crowned his Mikrokosmos published in 1940 with Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. On the one hand, they reflect manifold influences of Balkan folk music on the composer's oeuvre and, on the o...

Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera is a refined work by Maurice Ravel from 1907. Originally composed as a wordless vocal etude, the piece focuses on the suppleness of the melodic line and the purity...

Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera is a refined work by Maurice Ravel from 1907. Originally composed as a wordless vocal etude, the piece focuses on the suppleness of the melodic line and the purity...

I. The Whispering Grimoire In a forgotten library, a young magician discovers an ancient grimoire. Opening it, he unleashes ancient whispers and a strange magic. The solo, free and mysterious, brings...

I. The Whispering Grimoire In a forgotten library, a young magician discovers an ancient grimoire. Opening it, he unleashes ancient whispers and a strange magic. The solo, free and mysterious, brings...

I. The Whispering Grimoire In a forgotten library, a young magician discovers an ancient grimoire. Opening it, he unleashes ancient whispers and a strange magic. The solo, free and mysterious, brings...

I. The Whispering Grimoire In a forgotten library, a young magician discovers an ancient grimoire. Opening it, he unleashes ancient whispers and a strange magic. The solo, free and mysterious, brings...

Sing Out, and Dance! is an entertaining solo piece for euphonium (baritone) and wind orchestra. It is divided into a first, vocal part and a second, dance part. This allows both facets of the solo ins...

With this suite for brass quintet, David Sampson paints a striking musical portrait of Chesapeake Bay and the maritime world of Annapolis. In four contrasting movements, the composer creates colorful...