Published Sheet Music
Mats Bergström Performance Editions comprises works by major composers, arranged for guitar in combination with voice, flute and/or stringed instruments. With few exceptions these arrangements have been tried out and used in concerts as well as recording sessions. The series is intended primarily for professional musicians and for music students at advanced levels. Each edition is provided with fingerings for the guitar and an Editor’s Note containing a short historical background to the work at hand in addition to information on source material. Published by Gehrmans Musikförlag.
Two editions of mine, presenting the guitar music of Olle Adolphson, are available from Ejeby Förlag.
Free Downloads
The sheet music that you may download here free of charge are either separate pieces/editions of mine or folders containing several pdf:s that relate to recording projects such as Psalmer utan ord or Portfolio. In one of them you will find the scores used for the four Garage Studios Sthlm session videos found at the Videos section.
GARAGE STUDIOS VIDEO SESSION | Scores
Bach, Giuliani, Tárrega and Albeniz.
PSALMER UTAN ORD | Scores
Arrangements used for the 2023 album “Psalmer utan ord”.
PORTFOLIO | Scores
Compositions and editions used for the 2022 four-CD box Portfolio. (Obviously, compositions that are subject to publishing rights other than my own are not included here).
BERGSTRÖM | El Gato
Available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms for those of you wishing to hear it. (Score only, no tabs.)
BERGSTRÖM | Bagatelle
Another short composition of mine, also available on Spotify and other streaming platforms for those of you wishing to hear it. (Score only, no tabs.)
BERGSTRÖM | Why Me
This guitar piece became a Spotify hit, streamed millions of times. For those of you wishing to play it yourselves, feel free to use the score with tabs provided here.
EVERT TAUBE | Så skimrande var aldrig havet
Evert Taube’s song “Så skimrande var aldrig havet”, arranged for solo guitar. Taube (1890-1976) is one of Sweden’s most beloved cultural icons. Every now and then since some thirty-odd years, collegues ask me about this arrangement, which is rather free and almost “reluctant” to be written-down. Finally I have gotten around to recording it (for the 2010 Naxos album “Sånger utan ord”/(”Songs Without Words”) and then transcribing my own recording.
J. S. BACH | Prelude, fugue & Allegro BWV 998
This is one of Bach’s finest “lute works” arranged for the 11-string Alto Guitar, an invention by the late Swedish luthier Georg Bolin. Given the tuning of this instrument (a minor third higher than the regular guitar), the piece will come out in its original key of E-flat major. I must have had plenty of time as a teenager back in 1979, a fair copy like this takes more than an afternoon to complete. Not all the fingerings – and as you can see there’s plenty of them – are ingenious so do feel free to make improvements.
