“To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better. ’ Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
It is fair to say that Verdi, in his musical career, had very little need to copy the truth. He was one of the most important figures of Italian Opera, and is particularly well know for his Messa da Requiem . Browse our sheet music and scores for Giuseppe Verdi, and explore all his magnificent works today.
Many of Verdi’s 28 operas, along with many of Mozart’s operas and the operas by Giacomo Puccini, belong to the most frequently performed stage works worldwide today.
After his first two operas failed to capture audience’s imagination, Verdi made his first real break-through in 1842 with Nabucco. For the next two decades, he premiered a new opera almost every year. His operatic masterpieces include La Traviata, Aida, Rigoletto, La Forza del Destino, Macbeth and Don Carlos.
His later works, Otello, and his comic opera Falstaff are through composed, moving away from the tradition number opera, recitative and aria form. This new musical form forged the way for modern classical music, and can be regarded as the basis of modern day film music, while the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer and in particular Richard Wagner helped to shape the Hollywood sound world which we know and love today.
Despite his varied chamber music and cantatas, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem is considered his most important work, outside his operatic repertoire.
Verdi was not only a highly esteemed composer, he was also a successful landowner, and he even dabbled in politics. In 1895 he built a hospital near Busseto, and a retirement home for musicians in Milan, which is still in operation today.
from Aïda
for: 4 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 635620
opera in 4 parts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 278528
4 geistliche Stücke (1896)
for: Sopran solo, gemischter Chor und Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 657127
(with critical report)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 260289
Das Promenadenkonzert - Die schönsten klassischen Meisterwerke
Das Promenadenkonzert
for: Salon orchestra
Single part(n)
Item no.: 147920
Gefangenenchor aus Nabucco (Va pensiero)
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 663153
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587633
Brass Band
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594809
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 667433
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260582
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 645854
UMPC Critical Editions
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 260136
Dramma lirico in 3 atti
Partitura e Commento Critico (in Inglese)
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 192411
Melodramma in un prologo e 3 atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 159096
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 327308
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 4
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670471
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 4
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 670453
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670423
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 670398
Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di G. Luporini
for: SATB Double Choir and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 227319
Per Tenore E Pianoforte
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 186953
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 457122
Oper in 3 Akten
mit kritischem Bericht
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260149
für Gesang und Klavier
Deutsch / Italienisch
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Item no.: 378812
aus der Oper "Die Räuber"
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307923
aus der Oper "Nabuccodonosor"
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 183957
aus der Oper "Die Lombarden", für gem. Chor u. Orchester (Klavier)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 211737
Werkeinführung
Schriftenreihe "Die Oper" über musikalische Bühnenwerke
Teachers book
Item no.: 106155
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116315
Gefangenenchor aus der Oper "Nabucco"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1723
per coro a 5 voci (1880)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3125
Lied des Herzogs aus der Oper "Rigoletto" (transponierte Fassung: 1/2-Ton tiefer als Original)
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292
aus der Oper "Aida"
Welt der Oper
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 656555
Trinklied aus der Oper "La Traviata"
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1824
Item no.: 614082
aus der Oper La Traviata
for: Choir
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623994
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 329316
for: Trumpet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 277318
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 314373
for: Opera
Buch
Item no.: 249509
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 295402
aus der Oper "Aida", für gem. Chor, Klavier
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308372
aus der Oper "La Traviata", für gem. Chor u. Orchester (Klavier)
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308369
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 181045
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 203099
Petit Duc
for: Accordion
Item no.: 347018
Opera and Arias (Carisch)
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425823
“Auf schlürfet ihr Freunde” aus der Oper “La Traviata”
mit Klavier oder kleinem bzw. großem Orchester
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377652