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The Chrzaszcz-Trio was composed in the summer of 1986 for colleagues of Cambridge University and premiered in Warsaw in the same year. The Polish word 'Chrzascz' (pronounced: 'shonshtsh') means grassh...

We owe this sonata to a publisher who composed pieces himself. Even though the harp carries the weight in this composition, the melody instrument contributes various thematic ideas, bringing more colo...

Bochsa, born in 1789, was a harpist and in 1813 he was engaged at the court of Emperor Napoleon and later at the court of King Louis XVIII. In 1822, at the founding of the Royal Academy of Music, he w...

The movements are called: Till Eulenspiegel's first funny trick - Till Eulenspiegel has to walk through the enchanted forest at night - Till Eulenspiegel whistles a jolly song - Till Eulenspiegel's se...

In spite of the absence of precise biographical information or knowledge of the dates and places of his birth or death, it is safe to assume that Giovanni Francesco Giuliani lived in the Toscana, at t...

Giovanni Francesco Giuliani wurde um 1760 in Livorno geboren und starb nach 1818 in Florenz. In Florenz studierte er Violine und Kontrapunkt. Bis zu seinem Tod war er als grossherzoglicher Konzertmeis...

Each and every brass player should start his day by following these warm-up exercises. These exercises together with the embouchure training deepen the knowledge of the problem already mentioned in Pr...

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...