Modern Classical Piano Sheet Music

Das Anfangsthema aus 'Also sprach Zarathustra' wurde durch Stanley Kubricks Film '2001: Odyssee im Weltraum' weltbekannt. Jetzt liegt es erstmals bei Schott Music in einer Klavierbearbeitung vor.

Part of a new series of piano music books edited by British concert pianist Samantha Ward, and designed primarily to be played at home, simply for pleasure. The music has been selected for its relaxin...

Written in memory of American composer Steve Stucky and recorded by Grammy winning pianist Gloria Cheng as part of a collection of tributes. A light and optimistic piece filled with bursts of notes ri...

Prayer was one of seven new works performed at Spannungen chamber music festival in memory of Lars Vogt (1970-2022).

The initial stimulus for this set of pieces was a painting by Kandinsky, Composition VII (1913). The painting represents a period when he was concerned with emotional, abstract paintings of two sorts:...

These are the first pieces I have composed for solo piano. Many of the sounds, patterns and ideas within them have been in my mind and under my hands for a long time. The brief pieces variously includ...

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) began piano lessons at the age of 8 and started to compose shortly afterwards. Over the next ten years he produced nearly thirty works. Much of this juvenilia was writ...

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss was wholly influenced by 19th-century tradition. Logically, it was the examination of the examples of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann which character...

Summertime Variations is the third arrangement I have made of Gershwin's Summertime - and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known op...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...

These Six Waltzes (1902) for piano, four hands by Johanna Senfter are published here for the first time: this will represent another small step towards the long overdue rediscovery of music from the b...

Kompositionsjahr: 1967

In the context of the Petrushka project initiated by Schott Music, several dance pieces by various composers were written. On this occasion, en passant was created, only afterwards were two further pi...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold gave this waltz to his wife Luzi who was a Chopin lover as a present on her 46th birthday in 1949. Since Luzi was a brilliant expert on Chopin's oeuvre, her husband not only im...

In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promi...

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

Überraschende Spielmomente am Klavier bieten die 12 melodiösen Miniaturen mit Elementen aus Ludwig van Beethovens bekanntesten Werken. Ausgehend von bekannten Motiven aus der „Mondschein“- oder Waldst...