Free Rimsky-Korsakov sheet music
14 Rimsky-Korsakov 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 libraryRimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Russian naval officer who wrote his first symphony on a three-year cruise and only afterwards worked out that he did not properly know how music was put together, at which point he took a professorship and taught himself in front of his students. He became the greatest orchestrator of his generation and wrote the textbook on it. Scheherazade is his; so is the tidying of half of Mussorgsky. Stravinsky and Prokofiev both came out of his classroom.
Start with these
The easiest Rimsky-Korsakov 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 Rimsky-Korsakov 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 Rimsky-Korsakov 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.