Strauss Senior Sheet Music and Biography Johann Strauss was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for the Viennese waltz. Despite his resistance, his sons also became famous musicians. His most famous piece is the ‘Radetzky March‘, we have various arrangements on music-scores.com. It was written to commemorate the Field Marshall Radetsky’s victory at the Battle of Custoza. Early Life… Read More »
Hello Music-Scorers The snow is falling here in Kent, and the place is scattered with snowmen and fields of laughter with families sledging (including myself!). This week Anne has added three new arrangements of Op.11: Cantique de Jean Racine to her collection by Gabriel Fauré. This weeks new arrangements Fauré: Op.11: Cantique de Jean Racine Fauré Op.11: Cantique… Read More »
Jelly Roll Morton Sheet Music and Biography Born in New Orleans on 20th October 1890, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe became known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton. He achieved fame as a ragtime jazz pianist and composer. Try out his jazz foxtrot Jelly Roll Blues and his laid-back New Orleans Blues. Career Jelly Roll started his career in 1914 whilst… Read More »
Hello Music-Scorers Well January is almost over and we can move into February hopefully with more positivity …. but in the meantime there’s music. This week Anne has added to her collection of arrangements of Maple Rag by Scott Joplin which now totals fourteen Maple Leaf Rag Sheet Music – Violin and Piano Maple Leaf Rag Sheet Music… Read More »
Johnson Sheet Music and Biography Charles Leslie Johnson was born in Kansas City, Kansas on 3rd December 1876. He was a prolific composer of ragtime music. Try out our arrangements of Johnson’s Dill Pickles Rag. By the age of six, he was playing the piano (belonging to his neighbour). Just a few years later he was studying classical… Read More »
Hume Sheet Music and Biography Tobias Hume was a Scottish composer born around 1579. No one knows much about his life. Even his year of birth is based on his entry into the London Charterhouse (a home for “distressed” gentlemen and the admittance age was at least fifty years old). We feature Harke, Harke: No.10 from Musicall Humors… Read More »
Joplin Sheet Music and Biography At the turn of the twentieth century, Scott Joplin was known as the ‘King of Ragtime’. He went on to write over one hundred ragtime pieces. Try out popular pieces like Elite Syncopations, The Cascades and The Entertainer or browse all of our Joplin sheet music. Life and Career Joplin was born in… Read More »
Hello Music-Scorers! It is a very crisp January morning here in Kent. Yesterday we even had enough snow to build snowmen and go sledging… but it was short-lived.. This week Anne has added to her collection of arrangements of Maple Leaf Rag Sheet Music by Scott Joplin. Click on the links below to view the sheet music. Maple… Read More »
Hook Sheet Music and Biography James Hook was born in Norwich, England in 1746. He displayed an extraordinary musical talent early in life being able to play the harpsichord at the age of four and he was playing concerts in public at the age of six!! We have his Guida di Musica No.4 Minuet featured on our main… Read More »
Holst Sheet Music and Biography Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer and trombone player. Holst sheet music featured on our site include the Christmas favorite In the Bleak Midwinter as well as movements from The Planets. Life and Career Gustav was born on 21st September 1874 in Cheltenham, England. He descended from a family of professional musicians… Read More »