Free Balakirev sheet music
1 Balakirev score on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryMily Balakirev (1837-1910)
The leader and the argument of The Five, the group of Russian composers who set out to write music that owed nothing to Germany. He taught the others, bullied them, edited them, and wrote comparatively little himself. Islamey is the exception: an oriental fantasy so difficult that Ravel is said to have written Scarbo specifically to be harder. Balakirev had a breakdown in his thirties, left music for a railway office, and came back years later to find the world had moved.
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The easiest Balakirev on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Balakirev rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.