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This Trio op. 49 for violin, violoncello and piano was composed in 1839. In a letter dated March 21, 1840 to Ignaz Moscheles, Mendelssohn mentioned an inquiry by the publisher Ewer in London to arrang...

The original instrumentation of this composition still remains in the dark as even the first copies did not have a definite instrumentation. The substance of this music, however, won early recognition...

Zimmermann, Leipzig issued an edition of this triosonata as early as 1927 - even though it had been transposed to G major in order to achieve a more brilliant sound. Martin Nitz based his new edition...

The instrumentation is based on soprano voice, flute and orchestra or piano, and represents one of the most famous orchestrations in the history of the opera. Complex situations can be illustrated par...

This piece receives inspiration and asociations from its famous example in an original manner. It is of intermediate difficulty. The attractive ways in which the sounds of the flute and the vibraphone...

The flute starts with long note values which are increasingly compressed. Parallel to this figure, the percussion instruments play a rhythm which keeps repeating itself. Level of difficulty: intermedi...

Czech composer Oldrich Flosman (1925 - 1998) was musically influenced by S. Prokofiev and D. Shostakovitch whom he took as examples, as well as by Bohemian folk music. Traces of the latter can often b...

Transferring the originally Two-part Inventions to four instruments brings out the structural complexity of the individual parts even more clearly. This edition also offers means for preliminary exerc...

This piece is quite unique among Paganini's chamber music works as for once it is not the violin but the viola which plays the leading part. The second pecularity is the fact that the three instrument...

Siegfried Fink's composition was inspired by Adolf Luther's spherical hollow mirror objects in the 'Mönchshaus Museum of Modern Art in Goslar. In his preface, he writes: The concave and convex surface...

Christoph Wünsch was born in 1955. He studied piano, school music, composition, music theory and musicology. He worked on Max Reger and, in addition to his classical studies, he followed a full-length...

The short blossom period of the cherry tree symbolizes in an ideal way beauty and transitoriness. In this work, the composer connects traditional Japanese music, namely the famous SAKURA, a Japanese s...

Gaetano Pugnani (Turin, November 27, 1731 - July 15, 1798), the Italian violinist, composer and conductor of the Teatro Regio in Turin, was a child prodigy and his exceptional talent and virtuosity br...

The Quintet was written in 1989 on the initiative of the lady piccolo player of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. The first performance was at a private concert in London on New Year's Day 19...

The tonal language of this piece resembles the type of music of jazz and rock which contains romantic elements and which was played by Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and others in the seventies. This kind...

This piece consists of three parts which merge into one another. While long, wave-like lines float horizontally in the Prelude, it is the vertical element which dominates the Trialogue. The three inst...

The tales of Heinrich Hansjakob (1837 - 1916), the chronicler of life in the Black Forest, tell of folk musicians, wandering buskers, wedding party fiddlers, pipers and trumpeters to whose music the p...

This is actually a solo piece for flute. The flute embodies the individual with its many processes of change. The percussion part, here metal instruments only, is intended as a kind of complex resonan...

Der Paukenist, Komponist und Verleger Georg Druschetzky (1745 - 1819), in Böhmen geboren und hauptsächlich in Österreich und Ungarn tätig, hat ein umfangreiches kompositorisches Werk hinterlassen, von...

With the Concerto Polonoise we do now have the last unpublished, of originally eight, transverse flute concerts by Georg Philipp Telemann in a printed edition. It is excellent as a beginner's concert,...

The virtuoso fiddler Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840) did not just impress his audience with his enormous technical skill, but also with his unusual expressive play, which aimed directly at the feelings...

Die musikalische Sprache des Stücks ist angelehnt an eine mit Romantizismen durchzogene Musik aus dem Jazz- und Rockbereich, wie sie von Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett u. a. in den 70er Jahren gespielt wu...

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering strings ac...