Schott Musik

Die Sieben Ballett-Szenen sind aus einer Ballettmusik herausgelöst worden, die ich 2008 komponiert habe. Die Grundidee war, verschiedene Kombinationen der drei Instrumente zu verwenden und so ganz unt...

In the center of this work is the melody of the middle section Moon reflected on the Erquan Spring (Erquan Yingyue) composed 1949 by the blind Erhu player Hua Yanjun. The melody rapidly spread through...

This composition is a response to the Trío Arbós enticing commission to include me in a series of works for piano trio by various composers that pay tribute to and enter into dialogue with the flamenc...

In addition to his extensive musical expertise, Bernd Alois Zimmermann was also extremely knowledgeable in other fields, above all in philosophy and literature. The composer had devoted himself intens...

This short trio movement introduces a typical contemporary idiom, without being too technically demanding. Equally suitable for teaching and performance.

The Happy Birthday menus for two- (ED0 9748) and four-hand (ED0 9749) piano, for accordion duo (ED 8054) or string quartet (ED 7717) by Claus-Dieter Ludwig are well-known and extremely popular. Now th...

The popular series 'Souvenir Musical' contains easily playable, yet effective works arranged for piano trio. The editions are addressed to amateur ensembles, lovers of salon music and professional pia...

The popular series 'Souvenir Musical' contains easily playable, yet effective works arranged for piano trio. The editions are addressed to amateur ensembles, lovers of salon music and professional pia...

The Finnish word 'Marraskuu' means 'November'; furthermore, 'marras' means sth. like 'dull, dead, waste'. Marraskuu is a homage to one of my favourite seasons, so the title should not mislead to prima...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) is rather unknown in Germany although he had his artistic roots there for he was trained as a pianist in Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with piano-accompanied chamber music for strings all her life. Max Reger valued her 'extraordinary compositional...

The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turne...

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...