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
Music score
Item no.: 124189
for: Trumpet, chamber orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 227493
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Spielpartitur, Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116471
for: Viola da gamba
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 635489
Score
Item no.: 339371
for: Clarinet (a), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 116508
for violin and piano
IMC 3201 is part of this edition
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 161906
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 394697
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Horn (E-flat), violin, 2 violas, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 331415
for: Piano
Item no.: 621024
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 613312
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 670231
for: Violin, harpsichord [piano]
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 623273
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392390
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392108
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198401
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401218
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 378392
completed and edited by Frieder Bernius & Uwe Wolf
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665327
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401330
for: Klarinette (oder Flöte oder Oboe oder Violine), Klavier
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 394902
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 394696
for: Descant (soprano) recorder [violin], piano
Item no.: 354152
for: 2 Sopran-Blockflöten (Violinen)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 354150
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401158
(Urtext)
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 482949
27 Originals for Solo Piano
Selections from the Complete Edition (easy)
for: Piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 207035
Lobkowitz-Quartette und letztes Quartett (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts (4)
Item no.: 131975
for: Voice (medium), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 106574
(Kreutzer-Sonata)
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 160706
With two rondo versions and voices for horn in F and D
Urtext
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 145872
for: Horn, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174726
for: Violinen (2), Streicher (1. Violine, 2. Violine, Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Cembalo)
Set of parts
Item no.: 485181
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 475703
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano reduction, solo part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 433995
for: Oboe, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 157265
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 273565
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116481
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116479
two copies needed for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 229267
(Drumroll)
London Symphony
Studien-Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 776827
for: für Orchester
Score
Item no.: 340800
for: Klavier und Horn (Violoncello)
Item no.: 139882
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196708
Orchestral version of 1785
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196669
Zweite Fassung mit Klarinetten (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 196625
Pieces from the 16th to the 18th Century
New Edition in one volume
for: Treble recorder
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 351620
for: 3 treble recorders, basso continuo
Item no.: 200470
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