Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

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...

Maria Herz – only in recent years has her name begun to be heard in the music world, so thoroughly had her work been forgotten due to a complicated fate in exile. Born in Cologne in 1878 and raised th...

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)

Aufgebaut sind die Werke ähnlich wie die Bach-Suiten. Sie basieren auf Volkstänzen: Allemande - den deutschen Tanz, Courante - den französischen, Sarabande - den spanischen und so weiter. Spielen kann...

Die einsätzige Tarantella ist wie ein Erdbeben, das alles vernichtet.

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

Sechs humorvolle, unterschiedliche Fassungen des Ge??ídichtes 'Solitude'.

La Guerres Violinsonaten gehören zu den ersten franzö??ísischen Werken dieser Gattung. Sie zeigen Charakte??íristisches für den Sonatenstil der Komponistin: eine Vielzahl von Sät??ízen (bis zu 8 Sätze...