Schott Musik

This collection is an invitation to a musical voyage of discovery around the entire globe. Starting with well-known European folksongs, the itinerary continues via Scandinavia and the Balkans to more...

Kirchner, a volatile seeker after truth, became, as a composer, a master of transient visions. His importance lies in his piano music. His work com-prises about a thousand individual pieces. Schumann,...

Le più belle sonatine classiche di Muzio Clementi, Thomas Attwood, Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler, Domenico Cimarosa e Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Per le lezio...

This collection provides a historical selection of 40 original piano pieces which have been influenced by extra-musical incidents or ideas: It begins with scenes from nature, describes the fascination...

The present collection of piano pieces invites the musician on a journey - of the mind. Images described by the music emerge like musical picture postcards: Songs, dances, atmospheres, portraits stir...

With Weber's Invitation to the Dance Op. 65, the waltz developed into a great virtuoso form. This art dance was brought to perfection via Schubert and Chopin to Brahms's 'Love Song Waltzes'. Composers...

The music teacher and pianist Monika Twelsiek adds a new selection of piano works around the subject of Night and Dreams to the Piano Classics series. At any time, the night was a theme in literature,...

The author of the successful Romantic Piano Anthology and Classical Piano Anthology series' presents a fascinating selection of fragments and miniatures from Franz Liszt's catalogue of compositions. A...

'Hämmerklavier' is a full-length cyclical work. The composer tries casting off the straight-jacket of hide-bound musical traditions, sending the listener on a voyage of discovery and liberation. The '...

Dr. Straight und Mr. Swing wollen den Spieler dazu ermuntern, seine Kreativität und Fantasie zu entfalten. Die beiden zeigen, wie Improvisation, eingebettet in 12 Spielstücke, greifbar und erlernbar w...

With their wide range of differing moods these pieces concentrate less on the typical rhythm of the Tango but convey something of the demonic forces inherent in this dance. Unusual playing techniques...

It is no secret that the majority of piano owners, in addition to playing classical music, would also like to play popular standards and pop songs, just like the piano player in a bar or cocktail loun...

Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: 'We should let ourselves be cradled As if o...

Here is a journey through life in miniature. By the time the morning melody from the beginning sounds again at the end of Killmayer's musical 'Tales of this life and beyond', we have experienced many...

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the best-known composers in China. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China, won First Prize in the Alexander Tscherepnin Composition Competition and at...

Dieser Band enthält 70 beliebte Lieder und Songs mit Text, in leichten bis mittelschweren Bearbeitungen, Melodien, die man gerne spielt bzw. vorspielt und gemeinsam singt. Er ist nach Themenkomplexen...

Die Vier Präludien sind aus dem Originalwerk 'Tristan, preludes für klavier, tonbänder und orchester' herausgelöste, vorwiegend solistische Teile mit geringen Änderungen.

Immerse yourself in a captivating sonic world: With 'Präludien zu Tristan' published by Schott Musik, pianists can explore an extraordinary masterpiece of modern piano literature. These four expressiv...

'Fleurs du mal' ostensibly fits into the traditional pattern of the three-movement piano sonata and conforms to rudimentary sonata form. Yet the formal restrictions - including the predominance of the...

In 'Theme with Variations' composed in 1996 Tatyana Komarova uses a simple cantabile 11-bar theme alternating between 2/4 and 3/4 time. The seven variations are of different length, ranging between 8...

Increasing numbers of recent studies provide evidence that learning to play an instrument stimulates the intelligence and promotes a general aptitude for learning. Paul Dessau realised this as early a...

I often played Berio's Erdenklavier in my childhood, which is why I wrote this short epigram to take leave of the Maestro and Friend who is playing on a Himmelklavier now. From 1979 I worked many time...