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 »
Reger Sheet Music and Biography Max Reger was a German composer born in Bavaria on 19 March 1873. His talents extend to playing the organ, piano, conductor and being an academic teacher. He wrote a variety of orchestral, chamber, vocal and choral, piano and organ music. His best-known piece for the piano and also the orchestra is his… Read More »
Westendorf Sheet Music and Biography Thomas Westendorf was an American singer and songwriter born on 23 February 1848 in Virginia, USA. Westendorf sheet music on our site features his most famous song I’ll Take You Home Kathleen. Life Westendorf was born in quite a poor and insalubrious area where crime was common and falling into its clutches wasn’t… Read More »
Waldteufel Sheet Music and Biography Émile Waldteufel was a French composer born on 9 December 1837. Waldteufel sheet music featured on our site includes The Skater’s Waltz. Family Émile was born into a musical family. His father and grandfather were musicians and his mother was a pianist, singer, and dancer. The family moved from Strasbourg to Paris when… Read More »