Wolfgang Birtel

This epoch-spanning aria book has been designed specifically as a collection of material for budding voice students and will provide the beginning student with a sound and balanced basis for the entra...

Franz Anton Hoffmeister sicherte sich als Musikverleger in Wien einen wichtigen Platz in der Musikgeschichte. Er war aber auch ein überaus fruchtbarer und geschätzter Komponist der Wiener Klassik. Sei...

Il musicista Eduard Pütz (1911-2000) si preoccupava di superare i confini tra musica "seria" e musica d'intrattenimento. Le sue composizioni incorporano quindi caratteristiche stilistiche del jazz e d...

Il compositore Eduard Pütz (1911-2000) si preoccupava di superare i confini tra musica "seria" e musica d'intrattenimento. Le sue composizioni incorporano quindi caratteristiche stilistiche del jazz e...

Chi non conosce le melodie dei musical di George Gershwin (1898-1937), di "Porgy and Bess", di brani orchestrali come "Rhapsody in Blue" o "An American in Paris"? Eppure il giovane musicista aveva ini...

The composer Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) from Mainz often called himself a 'poet-composer': All his life, he busied himself with composing and writing alike. No wonder that he had devoted himself part...

The composer Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) from Mainz often called himself a 'poet-composer': All his life, he busied himself with composing and writing alike. No wonder that he had devoted himself part...

Nella migliore delle ipotesi, l'"Aria" di Johann Sebastian Bach può rivaleggiare con la popolarità del suo movimento "Jesus bleibet meine Freude": Il coro finale della cantata BWV 147 "Herz und Mund u...

The `Air` by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting `Jesus bleibet meine Freude` for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 `Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life` is really ca...

The `Air` by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting `Jesus bleibet meine Freude` for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 `Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life` is really ca...

A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934),...

Après un rêve, written by Gabriel Fauré for solo voice and piano, is a charming performance piece for concerts and festive occasions and one of the most famous and most popular melodies by the French...

Golliwogg's Cakewalk

A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934),...

The 19th century was not only the era of great forms, monumental symphonies and melodious sonatas, no, the Romantic composers proved to be versatile and highly imaginative on the field of little music...

A wedding without a famous wedding march - unimaginable! Wagner's 'Bridal Chorus' from 'Lohengrin' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March' from the incidental music of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' vie for th...

'Novelty of form, selected modulations, strange tone colours, the use of completely unexpected rhythms', this is how Camille Saint-Saëns praised the debut work of a young colleague and continued: 'Abo...

The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children's Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908.The style correspond...

Born in the village of Brand in the Upper Palatinate, Max Reger (1873 1916) was taught by the renowned music theoretician Hugo Riemann. After finishing his studies and working as a freelance performer...

It is therefore quite wrong to place just mechanical or mediocre players at the viola', warned Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart in 1784/85 in his 'Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst'. Some disreg...

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...

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...