Partitions difficile chez G. Schirmer

Italian/English.

Original text (French) and English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

French/English. Dialogue Version.

Scribe's libretto to Verdi's A Masked Ball concerns the real-life assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 but adds a love story to what was probably a political murder. Th...

Edited by Anthony Newman, this is the Schirmer Great Performers' Edition of Bach's Prelude And Fugue in E Flat and The Catechism Choral Preludes.

Sheet music for classical guitar.

Elliott Carter's Sonata For Cello And Piano is a work dating from 1948. Available here is the 1992 edition.

The solo Piano part of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto In A Minor Op. 54, as edited by Clara Schumann.

English Only.

Symphony no. 1 (1942) reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple and master pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in P...

For seven trumpets and percussion.

Violin/Piano reduction of the work for Violin and Orchestra composed in 1878. Edited by Erfrem Zimbalist.

An American of Japanese descent, Chihara is a professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. His interest in Oriental music is apparent in his music, and he frequently utilises the...

Ezra Laderman incorporates a lyrical style into a contemporary context, using tonal material in combination with atonal elements, and seeking out unusual formal structures for his compositions. His mu...

While the music of Carlos Chavez is sometimes not immediately recognisable as being distinctly 'Latin', the folk music of Mexico and the Aztec civilisations imbues his musical thinking with colorful r...

'...(Duologue) is expert stuff, written by a composer who knows what he is about. The violin writing is idiomatic, the piano wonderfully sonorous, everything sitting in the right place for the instrum...

Work for Baritone, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra, with text by Pablo Neruda.

Eugene List, who premiered this work in New York as 'the most difficult composition I have ever tackled. It is a piece of immense rhythmic complexity, great technical difficulty and unrelenting thrust...

Gioacchino Rossini's Una Voce Poco Fa, from the opera Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, for Coloratura Voice and Piano, in the key of E. Edited by Estelle Liebling.

Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra - Percussion duo parts only. What determines the special character of a piece of music written for percussion instruments is the very choice of sets of instrument...

This German-born composer and conductor came to the United States at the outbreak of World War II when he was just 11. He studied with Walter Piston, Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland among others and...

This piece was written in homage to the great pianist Artur Rubenstein towards the end of his life when he lent his name to the 'Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition'. Rubenstein,...

This piece was commmissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The premiere performance was given January, 1989 in New York.

The composer's aim in his work was to 'blend elements of contrapuntal invention with more virtuosic and imaginative Piano writing'. Composed in 1983, it is a 'Lisztian-Ravelian wash of virtuoso pianis...

This piece introduces a novel idea, the player is requested to sit at two Pianos, placed at right angles and tuned a quarter-tone away from each other. Several other modern rhythmic and pedalling tech...