Free Gurlitt sheet music
4 Gurlitt 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 libraryCornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)
German composer and organist from Altona, near Hamburg, who studied alongside the Reinecke family, served as a military bandmaster in the Danish war, and then spent his life writing music for young players. His albums for the young are made of small character pieces rather than exercises, which is the difference between practising and playing, and generations of children have had their first taste of counterpoint and phrasing from them without ever noticing they were being taught.
Start with these
The easiest Gurlitt 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 Gurlitt 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.