Edwin F. Kalmus

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

The authorship of this work is sometimes attributed to (or shared with) Pergolesi's teacher, Francesco Durante. There are editorial notes included by Clayton Westermann. The Latin text also has an Eng...

The Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001--1006) consist of three sonatas da chiesa, in four movements, and three partitas, in dance-form movements. The set was completed by 1720, but was lar...

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, is an incomplete work by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. 'The governing idea of the work', according to Chr...

Mouquet's best known work is his Sonata for Flute and Piano, "La Flute de Pan." He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris in the early 1900's as professor of harmony. Late romantic and impressionist com...

This edition is the first of an eight volume set, each written in high and medium/low voicings. Volume I contains 20 songs based on poems and text by familiar French writers, including Gallet, Gilbert...

The ballet La Bayadère ("The Temple Dancer" or "The Temple Maiden") was created in 1877 for famed French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917). In four act and seven tablea...

A collection of string duets for 2 Violins, composed by Leopold Mozart.

No. 1, Prelude * No. 2, La Toupie * No. 3, Nocturne * No. 14, Petite Ballade * No. 5, Consolation * No. 6, Duo * No. 7, Valse * No. 8, In Modo Antico * No. 9, Papillon * No. 10, Ne M'oubliez Pas * No....

Includes seventeen piano solos by the French female composer Cecile Chaminade. Her work is known for the beauty of the melodic lines and harmonic structure. Titles: Sérénade, Op. 29 * Minuetto, Op. 23...

This collection of 28 short, melodious pieces by J. S. Bach was compiled and edited by Walter Carroll in order to provide a varied set of easier compositions for study by pianists first being introduc...

Includes the piano score with trombone part on a solo line, and a separate trombone score. Andante sostenuto.

Format: Conductor Score & Parts Instrumentation: 4tpt Hn 3tbn Bstbn Drums This work for brass choir and drums was commissioned by Weltblech, and is in four movements: I. The Welcome, II. Hymn 1, III....

A student of Clementi, the Irish composer John Field was especially known for his nocturnes and the influence of these musical mood pieces on the works of Frederic Chopin. Titles: Nocturne in E-flat M...

Kalmus is proud to present these 69 artistic organ pieces from Julius Schneider. Each work is designed to help in developing advanced pedal technique. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is...

L'histoire du seul opéra de Beethoven, FIDELIO, est semée de rebondissements, parmi lesquels le fait que l'œuvre devait initialement s'intituler LEONORE. De plus, cet opéra est unique en ce sens que B...

Tirée de la fin de l'acte II de l'opéra Le Prince Igor de Borodine, resté inachevé à la mort du compositeur en 1887, cette version la plus célèbre des Danses polovtsiennes (ou polevetsiennes) a été or...

LOHENGRIN, créé en 1850, est un opéra romantique en trois actes, composé par Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Inspiré de la légende médiévale de Lohengrin, chevalier du Saint Graal, envoyé dans une barque...

LA TRAVIATA (LA FEMME TOMBEE), opéra en trois actes de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), est basé sur La Dame aux camélias (1852), pièce de théâtre adaptée du roman d'Alexandre Dumas. L'opéra s'intitulait à...

La Cenerentola (Cendrillon) s'inspire du conte de fées Cendrillon de Charles Perrault. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) a composé La Cenerentola à l'âge de 25 ans, dans la foulée du succès de son opéra L...

L'un des ballets les plus populaires, -Le Lac des cygnes-, a été composé par Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski (1840-1893) en 1875-1876. Tchaïkovski s'est inspiré de contes populaires russes et allemands pour...

Zaïs, de Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), a été créé le 29 février 1748 à l'Opéra de Paris. Il s'agit d'une pastorale héroïque, une forme d'opéra-ballet du répertoire baroque français qui puise son s...

« Ariane et Barbe-bleue : Acte III, Introduction » fait partie du seul opéra achevé de Paul Dukas (1865-1935), composé entre 1899 et 1906 et créé le 10 mai 1907 à l'Opéra-Comique de Paris. Dukas s'est...