Sheet Music Downloads by Alexander Goehr

'Broken Psalm' was commissioned by Cambridge University to celebrate their 800th anniversary and first performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College in 2009. Goehr, who was Professor of music at...

For Alexander Goehr, like Schumann, teaching and fostering new ideas andtalent has been an integral part of his life as a composer. In these 15 pieces he uses models (by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Schum...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne.

Consisting of two movements, the first slow and lyrical, and the second based on a scherzo and trio principle, this delightfully contrasted and technically challenging piece would be the perfect conte...

First performed by the renowned flautist Clara Rees at the launch of 'Sing, Ariel', a collection of essays and thoughts named after Goehr's 1990 work for soprano and ensemble, Ariel, Sing is a short l...

'Broken Lute, six pieces for violin alone', is written on a Chinese Ming story, 'The Minister, The Lute and the Woodcutter' from which Goehr has extracted key sentences and placed them at particular p...

A major contribution to the modern violin/piano repertory, Alexander Goehr's Suite was written for internationally renowned soloists Pamela Frank and Peter Serkin. It is in 3 movements and last about...

Goehr brings an ancient world to life in his setting of eight texts by Hesiod and Homer. Translated into English by Dorothy Wilder and the composer, this song cycle uses the classic stories of Prometh...

For baritone and piano. Text by William Shakespeare.

Spielpartitur = Solo-Klavier

Written in memory of Erich Fried (1921-1988), a writer who wrote the libretto for Goehr's opera Arden Must Die and whose poems were set in Warngedichte (op. 22), Carol for St Steven is short and playf...