Sheet Music by Women Composers for Symphonic Orchestra: Majestic Works

Kinderopern - Orchester

Kinderopern - Orchester 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano et baryton

The first piece of the cycle, La Fille d'Opéra, imitates the style of Rameau's Tragédies lyriques: Pouponne has left her native Arpajon to make it as a seamstress in Paris. In reality, she leads a rat...

Symphony Orchestra Exact instrumentation: 3(picc).3(eh).3(bcl).3(cbn) - 3.3.3.1-percussion (3), celesta, harp - strings Birth...The beginning of an existence. Mystery. The first breath. Germs of life...

The idea for the Olmütz Concerto was suggested by my husband, Richard, himself a trombone player and musicologist. When pursuing research in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (formerly Olmütz, Moravia) he came...

Work for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Judith Weir: Much of my non-operatic work for solo voice occupies an area between folk music and cabaret. In 1990 I began a personal project, which is still going...

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Flanders Festival in Brussels 12th October 2001. Composer's Notes: I have been very familiar with the flute since my earli...

With a libretto written by Judith herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group rathe...

From an 18, 000 verse Hindu text, the Bhagavata Purana composed about AD900, this extract is about the coming of the yearly monsoon rain. Commissioned by the Minnesota Orchsetra on the occasion of the...

For Soprano and Orchestra. Natural History was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was written for the voice of Dawn Upshaw. The first performance was given by these artists, conducted...

Kaija Saariaho’s Song for Betty is an arrangement of the last movement from her opera L’amour de loin and was an 80th birthday gift for Betty Freeman, who very generously supported the commission of t...