Sheet Music by Women Composers for Harp: Solo & Ensemble Works

My first impression of this poem, from the 1923 Pulitzer-award-winning collection by the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay, was not of a tale of bleak circumstance but of the power of maternal love...

Here it is folks, my second volume of original tunes and traditional tune arrangements for the Celtic Harp. It’s a hodge-podge mix of tunes that have come my way or come from me that I thought would b...

This piece was composed using as its basis the compositional technique of serialism in which a fixed series of notes are used to make the harmonic and melodic base of a piece. I looked at the twelve M...

The Concerto pour harpe et orchestre, was dedicated ta and premiered by French harpist and pedagogue Pierre Jamet with the Concerts Colonne (Paul Paray, conductor) on March 31, 1946. Jamet later becam...

Mel Bonis (18581937), Parisian composer, is the author of an important body of music. It was against the complete incomprehension of those around her that she fulfilled her vocation as a musician, wri...

When Hélène Breschand and her colleagues asked me to write pieces suitable for young harpists, I took up the challenge with enthusiasm. I had written several pieces for, or with harp, before but on th...

On four notes - D-E-G-A flat -, an episodic humming runs through the background of the piece. On top of this comes a somewhat solemn rising gesture in the form of phrases that will cover the instrumen...

The evocative title La Forêt enchantée [The enchanted forest] came to me purely by chance and the subtitles followed spontaneously: 1. par un matin [One morning] , 2. dans le lointain, el...

Sophia Giustani Dussek's opus 2 consists of two books of three sonatas each for the harp. The Sonata in c-minor appears in the first book, published by Pleyel in Paris in 1796. In this edition, the co...

Three dances which - all three played in succession - could represent a party in a castle or palace: The ladies in light-colored, wide dresses would like to take quick, small steps, but also just sway...

Das Werk mit einer Dauer von knapp 6 Minuten wurde von Florian Coutet in Auftrag gegeben, um es seiner Frau Manon Louis, Soloharfenistin beim Nationalorchester Lothringen, als Geburtstagsgeschenk zu s...

Dorothea Hofmann composed five works for organ and other instruments. They are inspired by paintings by Lucas Cranach. All works were premiered by Marius Popp under the common title „Wunderkamme “ in...

Ein Zyklus von 7 Stücken nach Sir Roy Strong's Buch: 'Creating Small Gardens', geschrieben für Annie Gicquel, die das Werk auch uraufgeführt hat (Nürnberger Tage für Neue Musik. Uraufführung 1988). Ho...

In diesen drei kurzen Stücken wird je ein harmonisches bzw. strukturelles Prinzip in komprimierter Form behandelt: Zwölfton; Bitonal; Ganzton. Schwer bis sehr schwer.

Tranche for solo harp, composed in 1967, is dedicated to the harpist Francis Pierre who premiered the work the same year in Zagreb, Hungary.

Ten arrangements for two lever or pedal harps for intermediate players and up. Melody divided equally between the players. Tunes appropriate for any front porch or gig. Includes La Paloma; Avalon; Pla...

Lotta Wennäkoski composed her harp concerto Sigla in 2022. In Segla (2022) for solo harp the concerto's material is reorganized and developed further. The title means "to sail" in Swedish. At the time...