Free Mendelssohn sheet music
42 Mendelssohn 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 libraryFelix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
German composer, pianist, and conductor, a prodigy on the level of Mozart, who at just twenty led the first performance of J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion since Bach's own death nearly a century earlier, single-handedly reviving interest in a composer who had been all but forgotten. Wealthy, cultured, and famously kind, he composed the Violin Concerto and the "Italian" Symphony with an effortless polish that some critics later held against him, as though ease were a flaw. His Songs Without Words for solo piano, brief, singing pieces without any actual words, invented a whole genre of Romantic miniature that composers were still writing decades after he died at just thirty-eight.
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The easiest Mendelssohn 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 Mendelssohn 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 Mendelssohn 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.