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Werner Icking Music ArchiveThis site has many free sheet music files. While many are in PDF format only, an increasing number are in MusicXML format or MusicXML-compatible source formats like Finale and capella. The Archive has since merged with IMSLP, but this original site is still available online.
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Best known for his operas, and Carmen in particular, Georges Bizet also composed songs, orchestral and keyboard works. Jeux d'Enfants (Children's Games) is a suite of 12 pieces for piano duet, and we provide two of these here: La Toupie (The Top) - or edit/play midi file
La Poupée (The Doll) - or edit/play midi file
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) :Luigi Boccherini was an Italian-born composer who toured Europe before settling in Spain. He was a contemporary of Haydn and wrote lots of works for String Quartet and String Quintet. His most famous piece is the Minuet from one of his String Quintets. It is available in various arrangements and we have included a version for Violin and Piano, as well as the original movement for String Quintet.
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, who like many others established his musical credentials at a young age, and died before reaching old age. Among other forms, he wrote several sets of piano pieces called "Songs without Words". These pieces are literally that, because they have a melodic "song" and an "accompaniment" all played on the piano. But the first item by Mendelssohn is the popular Christmas Carol: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - or edit/play midi file
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream - or edit/play midi file
Song Without Words Op. 19 No. 6 - Venetian Boat Song No. 1 - or edit/play midi file
Song Without Words Op. 53 No. 5 - Folk Song - or edit/play midi file
Song Without Words Op. 67 No. 4 - Spinning Song (or Bee's Wedding) - or edit/play midi file
Song Without Words Op. 85 No. 2 - The Adieu - or edit/play midi file
Song Without Words Op. 102 No. 6 - Faith - or edit/play midi file
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791):Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born into a musical family, and as a child prodigy performed regularly throughout Europe as well as his native Austria. During his short life he was prolific as a composer using many forms, and did much to shape the development of music. While the two minuets below were composed at a very young age, the Sonata in C was composed in a simple style as a piece suitable for a developing player. The Rondo Alla Turca (in the Turkish style) comes from another piano sonata and is also well-known. The Piano Concerto movement below was used in the film "Elvira Madigan".
Fernando Sor was born in Barcelona and lived much of his life in Paris. He wrote a large number of works for classical guitar, among them a number of different sets of Studies for students of the instrument. The following is just a small sample of his output: Etude Op.31 No.3 in D - or edit/play midi file
Etude Op.31 No.6 in Em - or edit/play midi file
Etude Op.31 No.7 in E - or edit/play midi file
Etude Op.35 No.1 in C - or edit/play midi file
Etude Op.35 No.2 in C - or edit/play midi file
Etude Op.60 No.1 in C - or edit/play midi file
Mazurka Op.32 No.3 - or edit/play midi file
Strauss, Johann (1825-1899):Sometimes known as "The Waltz King", Johann Strauss II composed a number of popular dances and especially Waltzes. His most famous waltz is undoubtedly "The Blue Danube" and here are simple arrangements of the opening theme: The Blue Danube for Violin and Piano - or edit/play midi file
The Blue Danube for Piano Solo - or edit/play midi file
Tallis, Thomas (1505-1585?):Thomas Tallis, like Byrd, was an English composer devoted to writing works for the church. A few of his works are still used as hymn tunes today. The Third Mode Melody below was used by Ralph Vaughan-Williams as a basis for a work of atmospheric variations.
I have not loved Paris as a Parisian, but as anAmerican; perhaps it is a stretch of words to say I love Paris at all. I used to love to go there and to behold the majesty of France. I have always liked to mark the startling contrasts of light and shade. I have always known what all the world now knows, that beneath the gayety of the French there burns a patriotic and consuming fire, a high sense of public honor; a fine spirit of self-sacrifice along with the sometimes too aggressive spirit of freedom. In 1873 I saw them two blocks long and three files deep upon the Rue St. Honore press up to the Bank of France, old women and old men with their little all tied in handkerchiefs and stockings to take up the tribute required by Bismarck to rid the soil of the detested German. They did it. Alone they did it - the French people - the hard-working, frugal, loyal commonalty of France - without asking the loan of a sou from the world outside.
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