Free Donizetti sheet music
3 Donizetti 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 libraryGaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Italian composer of about seventy operas, written at a speed that seems impossible until you learn he thought Rossini lazy for taking two weeks over The Barber of Seville. The mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor is the model for every operatic descent into madness that followed. His last years were terrible: syphilis destroyed his mind, and he spent them confined, unable to work or to be understood, before being taken home to Bergamo to die.
Start with these
The easiest Donizetti 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 Donizetti 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.