Les Matadors represents an English country dance from Ignatius Sancho's "Minuets Cotillons & Country Dances for the Violin, Mandolin, German Flute, & Harpsichord", published in 1775. Sancho's original...
This collection of twelve songs by the brilliant 19th century composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) include the original language (German or Italian for each) with English translations by Theodore Baker an...
Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...
This famous melody of St. Anthony Chorale has been attributed to Haydn, but there is doubt as to whether or not he was the composer or simply quoted an older theme taken from an unknown source. Whatev...
Written for eleven winds when Mendelssohn was fifteen years old, it has been set for contemporary wind band (the saxophone parts are optional, staying with a desire for historical accuracy to the exte...
A superb upper level showpiece for horn or euphonium. Transcribed and orchestrated by Donald Miller. Band M; Horn MA.
While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, alt...
Seldom do young students get to perform music by the master composers. Hymn of Freedom from Brahms' first symphony is an exception. Of sublime beauty, the theme has been arranged by Robert Longfield i...
Respighi's first published work is a set of six solo piano pieces composed between 1903 and 1905. These independent salon pieces draw upon different musical styles, forms, and composers. They are not...
