Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

'Aphorisms I' was composed in 2009 and premiered by its dedicatee, Kolya Lessing, in Lucerne in February 2010. The five short movements develop, for the solo violin, into a small instrumental cosmos o...

Her four-movement 'Suite' for violin and piano was written as early as 1960. Like many other works of the composer, it stands out due to its extremely rhythmic complexity and strong contrasts with reg...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

Dieses Album versammelt eine Reihe kurzer Stücke der Komponistin in Fassungen für Violine und Klavier. Unter ihnen Hits wie Russian Rag, Slicked Back Tango, Naive Waltz oder Peggy's Minute Rag, oft en...

This composition for solo violin was written in 1987 for the violinist Roger Zahab who performed the world premiere in New York. As is typical of Ursula Mamlok, the work of about 5 minutes' duration i...

These six short pieces are suitable for instrumental students and familiarise them with techniques such as double stops or left-hand pizzicato. Pieces 2 and 3 offer the same music with varying degrees...

Elena Kats-Chernin has collaborated with writer Joanna Murray-Smith several times, most recently on the TV soap opera The Divorce. A Nostalgic Piece was originally composed as incidental music for the...

Note by the composer: 'This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Period repertoire specially selected by the world famous teacher Sheila Nelson. Includes a wide spectrum of composers, from the well known to less familiar names and a lively variety of unaccompanied,...

Anmerkungen der Komponistin: In Double Bind? [Doppelbund ?] versuche ich einerseits, einen Einblick in das Innenleben von Klängen zu gewähren, und andererseits, eine imaginäre, manipulierte und veränd...

Written in Iceland, Ciaccona draws inspiration from Iceland's fiery, ice-filled landscapes - evident particularly in its episode displaying flageolets - as well as from Iceland's legendary hidden inha...

The awardee of two Guggenheim fellowships, Julia Perry studied composition with Luigi Dallapiccola and Nadia Boulanger, and conducted her works on a tour throughout Europe with the Vienna Philharmonic...

Clara Schumann was already established as a successful concert pianist and composer in 1843 when she published her second book of songs set to poetry, Sechs Lieder, Op. 13. By this time, at the young...

The Swedish organist and composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) strongly supported the emancipation of women in music. She studied organ and composition, with the Danish composer Niels Gade among others....

I was in bad need of a new vacuum cleaner, which I could not immediately afford. So I posted on Facebook, offering to write anyone a 3-minute encore in exchange for a new vacuum cleaner. A crazy idea,...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

Diese Sonate in einem Satz ist ein virtuoses Werk, das durch die Kriegslyrik von Henry Reed inspiriert wurde.

In 1998 we delved into Mel Bonis's archives, which had been kept in a cellar by her family. We found a simple folder containing the scores for these three pieces. It was entitled 'Three Pieces for Vio...