Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Discover masterly chamber music at its finest: 'Sonata No. 4' for violin and piano, published by the prestigious PWM Edition, offers a captivating musical experience for discerning instrumentalists. T...

Discover the joy of making music together with "Easy Pieces 2", published by the renowned PWM Edition. This charming sheet music edition for violin and piano offers aspiring violinists a wonderful sel...

Ruth Zechlin wrote her violin concerto between 1989-1991. It consists of one movement but has three transgressing parts. The first part was a reaction to the political turn in the former East Germany,...

Immerse yourself in captivating soundscapes with "Oskolki op. 61 / Postludium (Postlude)" for violin and piano, published by the renowned Sikorski Musikverlag. This impressive work unfolds a profound...

Das im Auftrag der Paul Sacher Stiftung entstandene Konzert 'In tempus praesens' ist Sofia Gubaidulinas zweites Violinkonzert nach dem großen, von Gidon Kremer einst in die Welt getragenen Violinkonze...

Die Sonate Nr. 3 für Violine und Klavier habe ich im Dezember 2005 in Bremen vollendet. Ich äußere mich ungern 'über' die Musik, denn Musik handelt nicht von etwas, sondern genügt sich selbst. Außermu...

In her music, the composer Johanna Senfter, student of Max Reger in Leipzig, devoted herself entirely to the late Romanticism. While her music had been regarded as old-fashioned for a long time, the p...

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) was a pupil of Max Reger.Beginning with an expressive violin theme in a densely packed, 'Brahms-like' piano setting, the classical four-movement work centres around two cap...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Musicians onstage stand in the limelight and enjoy their fame whereas after performance they become shrouded in a strange fog of isolation.

Johann Senfter (1879 -1961) wrote three sonatas for Viola solo; modelled on the Solo Sonatas of Max Reger, who was Senfter's teacher of composition in 1908/09 in Leipzig.

I wrote the whole of the first complex as a real inferno, using virtually nothing but noises. These end on the lowest note of the violin, which is also the starting point for the profound shock. While...

Be enchanted by 'All the way home', arranged for solo low voice and piano. Featuring an evocative text penned by the composer himself, this expressive work captures a heartwarming message of unity and...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

An enticing rarity in the vocal literature, 1861 is a 5-minute work for unaccompanied voice - a miniature monodrama, sung a cappella. Okoye's music and dramatic pacing are in tune with Whitman's words...

For Alto, Piano. Composed 1972. Duration 4:00.

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop’s musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...