Popular Classical Pieces Arranged for Guitar
- Instrument: solo guitar (arrangement: Christoph Dalitz)
- Composers: Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Couperin, Joplin, Mozart, de Visée
In arranging these classical "hits" for guitar, it was not my goal to transcribe every note of the originals. I have rather aimed at comfortably playable versions that sound like native guitar music.
All arrangements are available from the online music shop all-sheetmusic.com.
Badinerie (Johann Sebastian Bach)
The famous final movement (also known as "Badinage") from the B-minor suite (BWV 1067) in an effectful and comfortably playable guitar arrangement. The entire arrangement can be played without a barree stop!
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.com"
- YouTube video, played on a historic 19th century guitar
Two menuets for Anna Magdalena Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Two meneuts from "Anna Magdalena Bach's notebook" (BWV Anhang 114 & 115). In the original, these pieces are not directly connected, but it seems to me that they were planned as a twin pair of Menuet and Trio.
- Sheet music with TABs (PDF file) from "alle-noten.de"
For Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven)
This is an arrangement of the complete piece, and not only of the Rondo part, as in most other arrangements of this piece on the internet. In my arrangement, even the two Couplets are comfortably playable.
- Sheet music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.com"
Menuet (Luigi Boccherini)
The famous menuet from Boccherini's string quintett op. 11 no. 5 (G 275). As the lead voice wanders through the parts, I have extracted the melody from the five parts and have added a guitaristic accompaniment. The entire arrangement can be played without a single barree stop!
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.com"
Les Baricades Misterieuses (François Couperin)
Measured by the number of YouTube videos, this is the most popular harpsichord piece by Couperin. This arrangement for guitar is of only moderate difficulty.
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.de"
The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
The best known Ragtime. The original is for piano, but it sounds as convincing on the guitar. This arrangement is of moderate difficulty.
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.com"
Alla Turca (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
The famous "Turkish March" from Mozart's piano sonata in A Major (KV 331). The arrangement goes upt to the seventh position at some places, but this is made clear in the edition through the combination of music and tablature notation. This arrangement is of slightly more than moderate difficulty, but not too difficult.
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "all-sheetmusic.com"