Orchestra Study Scores

Bartók's Dance Suite was composed in 1923 and premiered in the same year in Budapest. The occasion was the 50th jubilee of the unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest to Hungary's capital Budapest.

My symphony will be something the world has never heard! Nature in its entirety is given a voice and tells such secrets that one could only dream of! (Gustav Mahler) Universal Edition introduces a ne...

I was graced with a pleasant period, and I believe it is more personal than anything else I have done until now. (Gustav Mahler, 1908, to Bruno Walter) Universal Edition continues its new study score...

Eastern exoticism, French impressionism and perfumed lyricism: Polish composer Karol Szymanowski in war-torn Europe in 1916 providing ecstasy without the agony in what he called 'a new style and new t...

Universal Edition issues a handsome new study score of one of Szymanowski's finest works. The Symphony's foundation is a captivating Persian poem, and text is included in Polish, German, and English.

The rhapsody for orchestra 'Taras Bulba' is the most important and on account of its genesis the most interesting of the three programmatic orchestral works the composer wrote between 1914 and 1920. A...

Die 'Symphonie Nr. 5' markiert einen Wendepunkt in Gustav Mahlers Leben. Erstmals wandte er sich nach seiner 'Symphonie Nr. 1' wieder der reinen Instrumentalmusik zu. Der Beginn seiner Arbeit daran is...

Though little known to outsiders, Basque composer Jesús Guridi (1886-1961) is as much beloved in Spain as in his homeland. He is a nationalist composer in the same deep sense as Vaughan Williams was i...

Als Anton Bruckner am 2. Jänner 1874 die Komposition seiner >romantischen< 4. Sinfonie Es-Dur begann, konnte er nicht ahnen, daß sie ihn bis zum Erscheinen des letztgültig revidierten Erstdrucks 16 Ja...

This pocket sized book contains Humoresques I - II Op. 87 Nos. 1/2, the first two of Jean Sibelius' Humoresques for Violin solo and Orchestra. This handy study score can be easily referenced. Duration...

Jean Sibelius completed this work in February 1923 and conducted the premiere in Helsinki on February 19 of that same year. His first reference to the work, in 1918, described it as 'wild and passiona...