Few artistic movements have changed people’s perception of the world as much as classicism. Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover for yourself all the wonderful music of the classical period.
In music, the Classical Period saw a departure from complex, contrapuntal polyphony, to the beginnings of a simpler homophonic structure, to melody and accompaniment. Polyphony however was not forgotten; all the major composers continued to use polyphony from time to time, and some of the most exciting classical movements use the modern fugue. A good example is Mozart’s Requiem, or Beethoven’s Great Fugue String Quartet Op.133.
The most important music form which came from the classical period is undoubtedly Sonata Form. Sonata Form is an elaborate structure that represents the ultimate pursuit of perfection in music. Sonata Form became the basis of all important musical works of the time: Concertos, Symphonies, Sonatas, and String Quartets. Through the progressive works of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opera developed out of the The Baroque Period, into the diverse classical form, with Opera Buffa and Opera Seria, serious or comic opera, championed by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Through the Classical Period, the piano overtook the harpsichord, and quickly became one of the most popular solo instruments, and certainly the most important accompaniment instrument. The orchestra grew, and new instruments such as the clarinet and contrabasson were added, and many other instruments developed, like the oboe, flute, horn and trumpet, and became more virtuosic due to the new modern valve systems. Towards the end of the 18th century, however, many baroque instruments, like the harpsichord, which had been firm favourites of the The Baroque Period, were becoming more and more redundant.
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 360402
Kadenzen von Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Sämtliche Klavierkonzerte (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383053
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 378339
(Urtext)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 138668
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 555127
for: Piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 413420
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116415
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 343320
for: Horn, 2 Flöten, 2 Hörner und Streicher
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 244871
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391660
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 550227
for: Piano
Item no.: 166583
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662163
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1204090
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 308203
for: Flute, piano [basso continuo]
Item no.: 488932
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 460644
Bärenreiter Urtext-Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425834
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 284432
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, guitar
Conductor score
Item no.: 610257
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 401238
(Sun Quartets)
Henle Urtext Edition
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 401178
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 620672
for: 2 clarinets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 113761
for: 2 violas
Ensemble score
Item no.: 125309
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 331127
for: Violin, viola
Ensemble score
Item no.: 164546
for: 2 violas
Book
Item no.: 163243
for: 2 guitars
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 617954
Klavierkonzert (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 375730
Urtext
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 682471
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 129743
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 283665
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 305094
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 305079
for: Piano
Item no.: 304673
for: Clarinet (a), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 268763
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 307771
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 198152
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401343
(Apponyi-Quartets)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 401184
Sonaten Wq 71-74, BWV 1036, Violinsonaten nach den Trios Wq 143-147
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, harpsichord
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 622534
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617098
Overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collin's Tragedy – Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 336228
for: 2 flutes, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 117500