Schott Musik

Neuheit der Formen, ausgesuchte Modulationen, eigentümliche Klangfarben, den Einsatz völlig unerwarteter Rhythmen, lobte Camille Saint-Saëns das Erstlingswerk eines jungen Kollegen und fuhr fort: "Übe...

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...

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1932) is regarded as one of the most important Polish composers since Chopin. He received his formative musical training in Warsaw where he lived for many years and was also di...

As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...

These variations are among the most little-known works by Carl Maria von Weber. They are especially charming due to the harmonic ambiguity, primarily found in the piano accompaniment, that Weber weave...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as lar...

Year of composition: 2014

Kompositionsjahr: 2014

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

Chaya Czernowin scrisse questa composizione per violino solo già nel 1981; si tratta quindi di uno dei suoi primi lavori. La prima mondiale ebbe luogo a Berlino nel 1983, poco dopo che la compositrice...

This edition of the Violin Concerto in A minor is tailored to today's common style of violin playing as well as historically informed performance practice. Two violin parts are arranged, according to...

Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...

The Belgian violinist, Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), with his impressive blend of virtuosity and poetry, was a great admirer of the young Debussy's music who led the Paris première of his only string quar...

Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012) numbers among the most prominent pianists of the 20th Century. That he was also a composer is less well known, though he wrote a whole series of works, notably for his o...

The Danish Rhapsody for violin and organ by Naji Hakim is an evocation of his Sakskøbing Præludier for organ (2005). Here the 12 psalms are varied and linked in the same order and in one movement, sym...

For almost 100 years, violinists had to live without Eugène Ysaÿe's Sonata Op. 27bis. The work was re-discovered in a sketchbook recently given to the library of Brussels' Koninklijk Conservatorium an...

Rosenblatt composed 'Introduction and Siberian Blues' as the 2nd day round's obligatory piece for Victor Tretyakov's Second International Violin Competition in Krasnoyarsk. A slow and lyrical introduc...

Minimalistische Patterns und feingewobene Klangstrukturen schaffen eine reizvolle Klangwelt für zwei Violinen. Anno Schreier schrieb die vier Miniaturen als Vorstudien zu seiner Oper über den Logiker...

Quattro brevi brani per violino e pianoforte di Lili Boulanger sono sopravvissuti e sono riuniti in questo volume. In tre casi, i curatori Elisabeth Weinzierl e Edmund Wächter hanno scelto come modell...

L'opera è uno scherzo con le dita di ragno che traduce il concetto di "ironia romantica" in un linguaggio tonale moderno. Misteriose creature lo scorrono avanti e indietro e corrono sul posto prima di...