Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)

Gyroskop is a contemporary Art of Bowing fro the Viola. Although difficult to classify, this mercurial work in two movements is a satisfying challenge to the viola player and fascinating sonic journey...

Melia Watras; a foremost performing violist and professor of viola; has commissioned a good number of composers for new works for her instrument. In her commission of Ran; she requested that a startin...

This tour de force consists of two movements that are complete opposites. Movement I; titled Momentum; starts with the viola and piano aggressively  sharing a single note. Things start swirling out of...

Juxtaposing soulful cantabile with capricious rhapsody, BREAKING BREAD culminates in a quotation from the African American spiritual Let Us Break Bread Together, the only clue to the meaning behind th...

YangKo, an important form of mass folk-dance that originated in northern China, has recently become popular throughout the entire country. In YangKo, the performers not only dance, but they play rhyth...

The solo viola repertoire has been enriched by this plaintive memorial work, originally for solo violin - the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer. The composer provides thi...

After the Schumann family moved to Dusseldorf in 1850, Clara Schumann (1819-1896) had a new lease of life in terms of her productivity as a composer. The Three Romances op. 22 for Violin and Pianofort...

Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a wide range of moods, styles and playing techniques, and young string players will enj...

Johanna Senfter’s Duo, completed in 1956, is the last and at the same time most compact of her five compositions for viola and piano. The impressive work is in a classical A-B-A form. Two mostly calm,...

In 1932 Johanna Senfter wrote Sechs Stücke for the church holidays for viola and organ. She arranged five of them for viola and piano as well. They are remarkable, atmospheric and colourful character...

The Sonata F minor for viola and piano op. 41, completed in May 1922, still breathes the spirit of the grand master Reger and yet already goes its own way in terms of rhythm, harmony, modulation and f...

The second Sonata F major for viola and piano op. 101 was composed in 1943 and is a fascinating testimony to its time. It stands in the tradition of the great classical sonata literature and yet is ch...

Of the five works that Johanna Senfter wrote for viola and piano, the Variations op. 94, completed at the beginning of the 1940s, are certainly her most sophisticated composition in terms of harmony a...

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, Chaya Czernowin wrote the arrangemen...

Victoria Yagling (1946−2011) was born in Russia and lived in Finland since 1990. Her long career as a cellist served as an excellent accompaniment to the composition she began at an early age. For 11...

Das gerade erst uraufgeführte kraft- und gleichzeitig geheimnisvolle Werk einer Komponistin, die fast ein ganzes Jahrhundert durchlebt, aber Ihren eigenen Stil geprägt hat.Gehört sie zur alten Schule?...

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...

I am Cello is one of several solo pieces by means of which the Australian-based composer remained in contact with her interpreters all over the world during the time of the coronavirus pandemic, compo...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...