Free Tchaikovsky sheet music
25 Tchaikovsky 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 libraryTchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Russian composer whose ballets, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, did more than any other music to make ballet the art form audiences recognize today, though Swan Lake was actually considered a failure at its premiere and only found its now-famous choreography years after his death. He corresponded for over a decade with a wealthy patron, Nadezhda von Meck, who funded him generously on the condition that the two never meet in person, a strange, intense relationship conducted almost entirely by letter. His symphonies and the Piano Concerto No. 1 carry an emotional directness that made him hugely popular in the West even during the Soviet era, when much Russian art struggled to cross the border at all.
Start with these
The easiest Tchaikovsky 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 Tchaikovsky 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 Tchaikovsky 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.