Sor Sheet Music and Biography Fernando Sor (bapt.14 Feb 1778) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. His name often translates into those of Joseph Fernando Macario Sors, Ferdinand Sor, Ferdinando Sor which causes confusion. Sor was a virtuoso guitarist playing the slimmer Romantic guitar pre-dating today’s Torres version. He was actually the first guitarist to play in… Read More »
Weber Sheet Music and Biography Carl Maria von Weber was a German composer, skilled pianist, and conductor of the Romantic era. Weber sheet music on our site includes arrangements of Op.33 Variations and Op.10a, No.1, 2nd mvt Romanze. Weber was born on 18 November 1786 and he was one of the main founders of German Romantic opera. His… Read More »
Smith Sheet Music and Biography John Stafford Smith (bapt. 30 March 1750) was an English composer of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Would you believe that his identity wasn’t discovered until 1970 in the music section of the Library of Congress! Find Smith sheet music for The Star Spangled Banner on music-scores.com. Smith is the first English musicologist,… Read More »
Scarlatti Sheet Music and Biography Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer, born on 26 October 1685 in Naples, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. His father was Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti. He is particularly famous for 555 keyboard sonatas. Explore our Scarlatti sheet music selection including Kp.086 Sonata in C and Kp.531 Sonata… Read More »
Hello Music-Scorers Well, it looks like Summer is finally here! The sun is shining and there’s no longer a frost in the morning. This week Anne has been very busy creating arrangements of Ponchielli’s Dance of the Hours from his opera La Gioconda, and also composing VaMoose a fun and original piece of music focussing on the daily… Read More »
Sarasate Sheet Music and Biography Pablo de Sarasate (born 10 March 1844) was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor. He is one of the biggest violin soloists there has ever been. His most popular piece is Zigeunerweisen along with his four books of Spanish Dances and the Carmen Fantasy (which he uses themes from Bizets’s Carmen). Find Sarasate sheet… Read More »
Rosas Sheet Music and Biography Juventino Rosas (born 25 January 1868) was a composer and violinist. He is said to be the first internationally acclaimed Mexican composer. Rosas is the composer of over fifty compositions, his most famous creation being Sobre Las Olas or Over the Waves sheet music remaining very popular to this day. It’s also known… Read More »
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheet Music and Biography Nikolai Andréyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was born in Russia on 18 March 1844. You can see our Rimsky-Korsakov sheet music collection including Flight of the Bumble Bee and Scheherezade Op. 35 3rd Mvt on music-scores.com. Between 1856 and 1870 he was part of the group known as ‘The Five / Mighty Five / Russian Five’. Their… Read More »
Schulhoff Sheet Music and Biography Erwin Schulhoff (born 8 June 1894) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the first classical composers to be inspired by Jazz and won the Mendelssohn Prize not once but twice! Antonín Dvořák gave him the encouragement and inspiration to start a musical career. In 1927 he wrote one of… Read More »
Reiche Sheet Music and Biography Gottfreid Reiche was a hornist, trumpet player, and composer, born in Germany on 5 February 1667. His birth town, Weißenfels held a long tradition of trumpet music in its court. You can download Reiche sheet music for Sonatina in G Minor for Brass Quartet in G Major on music-scores.com Reiche is probably most famous… Read More »