Sheet Music Downloads by Wolfgang Birtel

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Composed in 1886, the tremolo study 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' is without doubt Tarrega's best-known piece. It evokes memories of the Moorish citadel located on a hill in the Spanish Granada.Thanks to...

The music of small forms was what the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) focused on. In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the position of...

Overcoming the boundaries between 'serious' and entertaining music was what mattered to the musician Eduard Pütz (1911-2000). His compositions therefore include stylistic features of jazz and pop musi...

A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for th...

The Trois Gymnopédies are Satie's most famous pieces: Allusions to dances of young men in ancient Sparta in honor of the fallen of the Battle of Thyrea. Wolfgang Birtel has now arranged the Gymnopédie...

Gabriel Fauré was one of the most important French composers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century: he won the hearts of the public especially with songs and piano music. In the 187...

Sniff a little Berlin air, fire up the organ-organ and off we go to the Metropol Theater: to a round dance of igniting melodies by Paul Lincke, who enraptured Berliners from the beginning of the 20th...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

Maurice Ravel's melancholy popular 'Pavane for a Dead Princess' composed in 1899 was originally written for piano before he arranged it for orchestra in 1910. Though dedicated to a real princess, the...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leip...

Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.) oder Streichorchester. Partitur und Stimmen.

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...