Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Prolific composer Chen Yi began her musical career as a violinist; and she has now written a performance piece for the violin student; in loving tribute to her native Beijing. The violin's part in Fro...

Truly masterful in her ability to marry Western performance ideals with the folk music of China; Chen Yi wrote this plaintive memorial work in tribute to the passing of her teacher; Professor Lin Yaoj...

THE SOLITUDE OF STARS is a 5-minute work for violin and piano. It depicts the composer"s awe at experiencing a nighttime view of the starry heavens, shining brightly over the vast expanse of the Wyomi...

For Violin and Piano

For Violin Solo, Piano. First performance: Ida Kavafian, violin, and Menahem Pressler, piano, at the LIbrary of Congress, March 6, 1996. Solo part with piano reduction. Composed 1993. 7 pages. Duratio...

Solo Violin Part and Piano Reduction

For Violin and Piano

Bernofsky's depiction of the Phoenix is a swirling, swooping, soaring affair for solo violin, with trill passages up and down the strings. For advanced violinists. Watch a performance on YouTube by He...

For Violin and Piano

Composing her First Sonata in 1929, the barely 20-year-old Grażyna Bacewicz was taking her fi rst steps in the world of chamber music. At that time, Bacewicz was hugely infl uenced by the music of Kar...

Three-movement work written at the beginning of the 30s while composer was studying composition in Warsaw and Paris. The opening Allegro is remarkably lively, dancing and lyrical. Thanks to the counte...

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,...

(29,7 x 21,0 cm)

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...