Schott Musik

The correspondence between Paul Hindemith and the publishing house B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz comprises around 2800 documents. The protagonists are, on the one hand, Paul Hindemith and his wife Gertru...

Between Sisters (1990) is a musical setting of The House Slave, a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, and is scored for alto flute, piano, soprano, and vibraphone. S...

Jasper Drag was commissioned by Michigan State University and the Phillips Collection for the Verdehr Trio. The title refers to the June 7, 1998 Jasper, Texas incident, wherein three white men dragged...

Sopran-Saxophon, Trompete, Militärtrommel und Klavier.

Alvin Singleton's La Flora is inspired by the figure of the goddess Flora, a character painted in the mysterious 15th century Botticelli masterpiece La Primavera with its mysterious and sexy gathering...

Thierry Pécou's demanding Sextet for piano and wind quintet can be played by students and professional ensembles alike.The composer got his inspiration to write this piece from listening to a gamelan...

This diptych consists of two brief contrasting movements which however have a common focus on the amalgamation and fusion of tonal colour in the three instruments.The harmonic foundations of the first...

Concertino pour piano, flûte, clarinette, saxophone, violon et violoncelle Partitur und Stimme - Klavier, Flöte, Klarinette, Saxophon, Violine und Violoncello.

For me, as someone who considers myself far removed from Christian spirituality and closer to the concept of Immanence than to any form of Transcendence, it was obvious to me that I would not compose...

In dem von der Musik des tibetanischen Buddhismus inspirierten Werk imitieren Bassklarinette und Klavier durch spezielle Spieltechniken die typische Instrumente, die in rituellen Zeremonien zum Einsat...

If a chanson is combined with a birthday celebration (in this case, that of the Ensemble Utopik who commissioned this new work), this inevitably brings back scenes of childhood. For me, Adieu Madras c...

Four songs for unison voices, barred instruments (glockenspiel, metallophone and xylophone) and small percussion instruments. Suitable for use in junior and secondary schools, these songs are adventur...

The present publication of the complete works of Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764) is intended as a critical edition, making the works of the composer available in accordance with the most recent r...

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Trompete in D

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...

Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann co...

Der 'normale' Tastatur-Klavierklang bleibt in diesem Stück die Ausnahme, in der Singstimme wird auf Text weitgehend verzichtet und die Klarinettenstimme ist übersät mit Luft- und Mehrklängen.

'Should muses be silent while the guns speak?' asks Jörg Widmann, who was only 20 years old when composing this piece, with his Trio for Clarinet in B flat, violin and piano, a musical essay on three...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the - at first only tentative - interaction of the three instrument...