Sheet Music by Women Composers for Symphonic Orchestra: Majestic Works

Voices Shouting Out is a response to 9/11 that is marked by a sense of resiliency. In the composer's own words, It was a march to acknowledge those fighting on behalf of our safety, and yet a sparklin...

Stücke für Streichquartett und Orchester sind äusserst selten. Lera Auerbachs 'Fragile Solitudes' ist als ein einziger großer Konzertsatz konzipiert und reflektiert das strukturelle Konzept von Joseph...

Der Ikarus-Mythos hat die abendländische Kunst immer wieder beschäftigt. Er erzählt vom Übermut des Knaben Ikarus, dem Sohn des Daedalus, der für sich und seinen Sohn künstliche Flügel schuf, diese mi...

Ouverture for orchestra (2.2.2.2.-2.2.2.0., Timp, Str): The Ouverture for orchestra (1942) by Matilde Capuis is an early symphonic work for classical orchestra. It stands stylistically between late Ro...

Orchestra. For Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, English Horn, Horn, Trumpet, Tenor, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Piano, Viola, Cello, Violin I, Violin II,...

For Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Tenor, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Tambourine, Violin I, Violin...

Lera Auerbachs Beziehung zur Literatur durchzieht alle Genres ihres kompositorischen Schaffens. Auch in ihrer 1. Sinfonie ist ein solcher Bezug zu finden. Homer beschrieb die im Untertitel der Sinfoni...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Hoamat — the Bavarian pronunciation of the word 'Heimat' (Home) — was commissioned by the Municipal Music School in the city of Burghausen for their 'Lokalklang' festival. The ten movements make use o...

For Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Timpani, Violin, Cello, Strings.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Kaija Saariaho's Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Orchestre National de Lyon, Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The Concerto 'In tempus praesens,' commissioned by the Paul Sacher Foundation is Sofia Gubaidulina's second violin concerto after the great Violin Concerto 'Offertorium' of 1980, played by Gidon Kreme...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

A a three-movement suite for orchestra, composed in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States (1776-2026). Inspiration for this music is taken from songs depicting colo...

In her new work, the British composer, who was born in 1950 and lives in Nuremberg, spans a poetic arc between delicate lyricism and bright, powerful orchestral colors. Inspired by birdsong and concer...

For Orchestra