Sheet Music for Violin

Violin and Piano (Waltz)

In this second Sonata Krzysztof Penderecki shows the fruits of almost five decades of continuing artistic development. While the first Sonata by the 20 year-old student was already a remarkable stylis...

A major contribution to the modern violin/piano repertory, Alexander Goehr's Suite was written for internationally renowned soloists Pamela Frank and Peter Serkin. It is in 3 movements and last about...

Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who died in March 1999, was both the founder and for 40 years the guiding spirit of the summer music festival that is named after him in the Swiss town of Gstaad. The Gstaad festiv...

You can even play a duet on a solo instrument! In his piece! In notes spread across two systems the violin displays its characteristic contrasting qualities. The instrument contradicts itself: staccat...

Volker David Kirchner's works encompass every genre. His Three Meditations for Violoncello were theatrical in their inspiration, were as the Pietà for solo violin exploits the full technical range of...

These attributes mentioned here: Ease -Swiftness - Precision - Vividness - Complexity - are used by Benjamin Schweitzer as signposts for putting the pop into the weasel in his solo violin part. Out of...

Dieses Auftragswerk für den 5. Internationalen Violinwettbewerb Leopold Mozart in Augsburg ist im Berlioz-Jahr 2003 eine liebevoll-ironische Hommage an Harriet Smithson, die berühmte englische Darstel...

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) drew attention to himself even as a child due to his musical talent: At the age of seven he took violin lessons, only three years later he was hired as a violi...

This arrangement for violin and guitar instead of violin and piano by Peter E. Segal suits the character of the folkloric miniatures very well. It is precisely the guitar which can give excellent expr...

Fritz Kreisler's (1875-1962) collection Klassische Manuskripte written by the violin virtuoso around the turn of the century who pretended they were transcriptions of movements by old masters such as...

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...

In his Violin Sonata, the internationally renowned Turkish pianist Faz?l Say combines the classical western form with folk music elements of his home country, spiced with jazz-like intensified rhythms...

In November 1885 Camille Saint-Saëns set out on a concert tour with the Cuban violinist Diaz Albertini which led him to the north of France on his way to Germany. On a cold and damp evening, the crack...

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770) was born in Paris and entered the court orchestra of Versailles as a violinist in 1737. As a composer he was influenced by Corelli and apparently self-taught.This...

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) was a pupil of Max Reger.Beginning with an expressive violin theme in a densely packed, 'Brahms-like' piano setting, the classical four-movement work centres around two cap...