Wolfgang Birtel

Songs Without Words' - that's what Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) called his lyrical piano pieces, romantic miniatures in which the composer wanted to 'sing' on the keyboard instrument. With...

Georg Philipp Telemann's '6 Sonatinas for Viola and Basso Continuo' make a major standard work for violin available for the viola. At the federal competition 'Jugend musiziert', they have long since b...

La raccolta "Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces" per viola e pianoforte presentata da Schott contiene una selezione di opere che possono accompagnare ogni allievo in molti anni delle su...

Die Sérénade vénitienne für Viola und Klavier erschien 1875 in Mainz im Druck und ist dem belgischen Violin-, Viola- und Viola damore-Spieler Louis van Waefelghem gewidmet, dem er sicherlich in Paris...

La malinconica e popolare "Pavane for a Dead Princess" di Maurice Ravel, composta nel 1899, fu originariamente scritta per pianoforte prima di essere arrangiata per orchestra nel 1910. Pur essendo ded...

Novità di forma, modulazioni selezionate, strani colori tonali, l'uso di ritmi completamente inaspettati", così Camille Saint-Saëns elogiava l'opera prima di un giovane collega e continuava: "Al di so...

The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy. Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos...

The music of small forms and of chamber-music instrumentations was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher...

When writing his Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a classic of the violoncello literature. But the French musician even wrote other works for this in-strument: further solo...