Schott Musik

In the last scene of Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', Wotan, the father of the gods, punishes his daughter Brünnhilde for her disobedience. He wants to curse her to a deep sleep for her to be helplessly...

My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally - on a superficial level - simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and...

My dark and shadowy piano Intermezzi are followed by these Zirkustänze [circus dances]. They are naturally - on a superficial level - simpler, more cheerful, brighter and also more garish, drastic and...

The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the posit...

Der im Herbst 2011 entstandene kleine Variationszyklus über einen Ländler von Schubert entstand zwar aus Anlass des Petrushka-Projekts von Schott. Da mir aber kleine Aufträge grundsätzlich zu groß ger...

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms.

What dance is this? Is it the dance coming from afar, its remnants too entangled to decipher, one which was brought by a gust of wind, as you stand alone and listen to a far away party in the night? O...