Free Chaminade sheet music
13 Chaminade scores 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 libraryCécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
French composer and pianist who was one of the first women anywhere to make a full living from writing music, published more than four hundred pieces, and was so popular in the United States that Chaminade Clubs formed in cities she had never visited. Bizet, a family friend, called her a little Mozart when she was eight. She was the first woman composer to be given the Légion d'honneur. Her music went out of fashion for most of the twentieth century and is being played again now, which she would have found unsurprising.
Start with these
The easiest Chaminade 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.
Every Chaminade score
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 Chaminade 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.