Piano Society has taken another step in the development of the project and now provides sheet music for the recordings on the site. We do not have everything yet but we work on it. Click on the small PDF-icon to the right of the recordings and the sheet will be downloaded to your browser (or maybe downloaded to your har disk depending on your local settings). You need Acrobat Reader to view the score which can be downloaded for free here.

There are several reasons why we cannot provide sheets for all the recordings. The main reason is that the scores must be in public domain. So to speak, not regulated by copyright restrictions.

Also, we do not currently plan to have a complete list of sheets for recordings that we do not have on the site. A lot of other sites do that already.

Enjoy!

Anyone having public domain scores of pieces from the list below and are willing to help fill out the missing scores on the site?

Albeniz - Espana, 2. Tango
Barber - Sonatas
Bartok - Sonata
Beethoven - Piano Quartets
Burgmuller - Etudes
Busoni - Sonatinas
Byrd - Pavanes and Galliards
Caby - Piano pieces
Clementi - Sonatas
Copland - The cat and the mouse
Debussy - Tarantelle Styrienne
Dussek - The sufferings of the queen of France
Dutilleux - Sonata
Eller - Piano pieces
Falla - El Sombrero de tres picos
Falla - El Amor Brujo
Field - Nocturnes
Granados - Miscellanous, Danza lenta
Joplin - Rags
Koch - Monologes
Lejsek - Moon suite
Liadov - Piano Pieces
Liadov - Variations on a polish theme
Liszt - Album d'un voyageur, Book 1
Liszt - Five piano pieces
Liszt - Schubert Song Transcriptions
Liszt - Three funeral odes
Medtner - Fairy Tales
Medtner - Forgotten melodies
Mendelssohn - Songs without words
Messiaen - Couleurs de la Cite Celeste
Mompou - Pessebres
Mozart - Piano Concertos
Pachelbel -
Palmgren - Finska Rytmer
Pann - The Bills
Peterson- Berger - Frösöblomster
Rachmaninov - Polka V.R
Rachmaninov - Sonata
Ravel - Petites Pieces
Rzewski - De Profundis
Schubert - Fantasias
Shere - Sonata
Shostakovich - Piano Trios
Shostakovich - Preludes and Fugues
Sibelius - 5 piano pieces
Sibelius - 5 sketches
Sibelius - Valse Triste
Smetana - Miscellaneous, On the seashore
Smetana - Reves
Soler - Sonatas
Szymanowski - Mazurkas
Turina - 5 Danses Gitanes
Turina - Danzas fantasticas

(Edit 1, 2006-12-30)
(Edit 2, 2007-01-01)
(Edit 3, 2007-01-03)
(Edit 4, 2007-01-08)
(Edit 5, 2007-01-10)
(Edit 6, 2007-02-05)
(Edit 7, 2007-03-01)

The first round of emailing you I sent:

Bartok - 10 easy pieces
Ravel - Ma Mere l'Oye
Tchaikovky - Album for the Youth
Smetana - Czech Dances
Scriabin - Preludes

now I will wait until you clean out your inbox before I send you another round of sheet music.

you can scratch off:

Alkan- etudes
Debussy- estampes
Falla- nocturnes
Granados- 12 spanish dances
Bach - Preludes, Fantasias and Fugues
Bach- Aria Variata
Berg - Sonata op1
Brahms - Klavierstucke, op.76
Busoni - Chaconne in d (BACH)


That's enough until I get a response from you, Mr. Robert. I don't want to flood your inbox


I will send you 80% of the rest except for the "minor" composers (i.e. Peterson-Berger etc.) and the newer composers like Caby. That stuff I do not have. But the rest I do. Too bad I cant play them.

Edit:

This is what I will send you-

Liszt- years of pilgramage, Etude ab irato, Waltz in a major, Transcriptions (both of them), Valse Melancolique
Mendelssohn- Children's songs & op.16
Mozart- Rondos, Mineuts, Gigue, Allegro, & Adagio
Scarlatti- All sonatas which are needed but catagorized in "L." not "K."


This is the stuff that I do not have:

Albeniz- Tango
Busoni- Sonatinas
Byrd- Pavenes
Caby- Piano pieces
Clementi- Sonatinas
Copland- Cat and Mouse
Debussy- Danse Tarantelle
Dussek- The sufferings of the queen...
Dutilluex- Sonata
Falla- Ritual Fire dance
Granados- Danza Lenta
Koch- Monologes
Lejsek- Moonsuites
Liadov- Piano Pieces & Variations
Liszt- Duex legendes
Liszt- 5 piano pieces
Liszt- 3 funeral odes
Martinsson- Virgo
Messiaen- Couleurs
Mompou- Pessebres
Moszkowski- Piano Concerto*
Mozart- Piano Concerto*
Palmgren- Finska Rytmer
Pann- THe Bills
Peterson Berger
Rachmaninov- all requested
Ravel- Petites Pieces
Rzewski- De Profoudis
Schubert- Fantasia D.952 (4 hand)
Shere- all requested
Sibelius- all requested
Smentana- Onn the seashore & Reves
Soler- all requested
Szymanowski- all requested
Turina- all requested.



*= would you want piano conertos arranged for 2 pianos? Or do you want to stay with 1 piano originals?

Wow, you guys!!! This is really SO great. Thank-you for spending what I can only imagine must have been an inordinate amount of time to make all of this sheet music available. I look forward to reading along on the pages of the scores I don't own, while listening to the recordings.

Thanks you! But it is nothing comparing to the work of all the recordings to the site. I started the sheet project about two weeks ago...and the recording project 2 1/2 years ago .

Thanks to juufa, I have now completed a lot missing sheets on the site. I will edit the second post of this thread so it reflects the situation of missing sheets.

It is time for me to pay the state library where I live a visit. They have a lot old sheets there which should be in public domain.

Mr. Robert you can erase Bach's organ works. I sent you what I have. I will send you Buxtehude's pieces.

Is it possible to link some of the icons in works with more than one movement to that specific section? That would help greatly for long pieces like sonatas and concerti.

Also I had an idea. For any of the concerti sheet music on the site, you should be able to choose whether you want the one piano version, two piano version, or the full score. This is because different people would have different needs. I personally would love to play the one piano version of the 2nd movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto, but someone who has a friend who can play the piano well might want the two piano version.

I hope I haven't been to verbose, or used ideas that had already come up or were too obvious.

EDIT: If it isn't too much trouble, could both versions of Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano sonata (1913 and 1931?) be put up? I think that you have the 1913 version.

I chosed to only have score up for pieces we have recordings for but I understand why you ask this (of course) and will consider to have complete set of scores for a certain opus or concerto etc.

The problem by having several versions of the score is that I do not have any space for a text that can describe what the score is about. But I will think of this too.

I actually meant individual movements of the work, not an entire opus. For example, you have all of Chopin's 2nd concerto in mp3 files on your site. What I was asking is that maybe if I clicked onto the PDF icon next to the 2nd movement, instead of taking me to the beginning of the concerto, it would take me directly to the beginning of the 2nd movement. I think that might be helpful for many people.

Ok, but unfortunately, this is a tremendous amount of work as I must edit a huge number of PDF formatted sheets (which you need special tools for to do) and split them into separate works. Take Scarlatti's +500 Sonatas for example. Sorry, but I will not do this.

Made an overall monthly update and uploaded another 33 scores.

The link to Moszkowski's Op. 59 seems to be mesed up. But if you actually still need a score for it, there's one available at http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concert ... _Moritz%29

Mistake corrected (strange that my linker checker did not report on it). The link works now.