Harp Sheet Music By Title

Juan Antonio Orrego Salas is a Chilean composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist. He was a student of Randall Thompson and Aaron Copland in the United States, and later settled in Indiana, where he co-founded the Latin American Music Center.

A short gavotte movement from Corelli's Violin Sonata in F, Op. 5 No. 10, with variations in 18th century style. Key of F major. Some lever or pedal changes on B and E, mostly between sections. Appropriate for both lever and pedal harp, with notations for both. Intermediate level. Playing time of approximately 12 minutes.

The Variations on a Theme of Mozart includes an alternate piano part so that harpists can choose between two versions. The Nocturne is the solo harp part only; this piece was originally written for piano but falls beautifully under the harpist's fingers. A truly gorgeous piece, the Nocturne has a lilting melody over an arpeggiated bass. The hands reverse towards the end of the piece, as right hand arpeggios complement a left-hand octave melody. Often a recital piece for classical harpists, this composition is a must-have for any pedal harpist.

Théodore Labarre (1805-1870) succeeded Naderman at the Paris Conservatory, and his compositional style shows him to have inhabited a transitional space in the harp's technological development, half way between the established single-action pedal harp school and the development of the double-action pedal harp that we know today. The compositional innovations of Parish Alvars and the Godefroid brothers are the end result of the double-action pedal harp's development. Labarre's music bridges the space between Naderman's music and that of these later Romantic composers.

French composer, organist and opera director Marcel Samuel-Rousseau composed this series of variations for the intermediate level solo harpist.