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.
Philharmonia
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 211929
Opéra-ballet in drei Akten
Paris 1775
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sämtliche Werke IV/9
for: Soli, Chor, Ballett, Orchester
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 868784
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1532293
for: Violin, orchestra
Partitur, Leineneinband
Item no.: 103590
Tragedia per musica in drei Akten
Wiener Fassung 1767
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sämtliche Werke I/3a+b
2 Bände: Notenband + Kritischer Bericht
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 115360
complete opera
for: Soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1666541
Hector Berlioz. New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 22a+b
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 456537
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1023005
Meisterwerke Der Musik Im Faksimile
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
PART LN GEB / FAKSIMILE
Item no.: 133653
Kompositionsstudien bei Haydn, Albrechtsberger, Salieri
Item no.: 631404
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 1530211
Documenta musicologica II/51 / Bärenreiter Facsimile
Faksimile
Item no.: 868928
Soli per il Flauto Traverso – 27 Volumi
for: Flute, basso continuo
Item no.: 1645565
Faksimile der autographen Partitur in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, dem Beethoven-Haus Bonn und der Bibliothèque nationale de France
Documenta musicologica II/42 / Bärenreiter Facsimile
Faksimile
Item no.: 868845
for: Violin, orchestra
Partitur (Luxusausgabe), Faksimile
Item no.: 461537