Nikolai Kapustin first composed the Sinfonietta op. 49 for orchestra. He later arranged the popular four-handed piano version for a concert in the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. It is written at an...
Selezionato per gli allievi dei primi anni di lezioni di pianoforte, questo volume contiene 50 composizioni dal barocco al primo Novecento, da Pachelbel a Grechaninov. Sono incluse anche sonate e sona...
In questa edizione, Silvestrov ha raccolto per la prima volta cinque cicli da una moltitudine di "Bagatellen", il suo genere preferito negli ultimi anni - e li ha anche registrati su CD (ECM). Ciò che...
Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...
8 Concert Studies is one of the most popular works by Kapustin. Composed in 1984, the studies show Kapustin's wide-ranging and inventive composition style. In each study, the pianist faces various, of...
In diesem Band der Reihe 'Klassische Meisterwerke zum Kennenlernen' wird das großartige Werk Karneval der Tiere von Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in leichter Bearbeitung für Klavier vorgestellt. Dar...
Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) was a major star on Polish State Radio in the 1930s. In September 1939, during a live broadcast, he was perfoming Chopin's Nocture in C Sharp Minow when the sudio was bo...
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) received his first music lessons from his father and later became a pupil of the famous Antonio Lotti. His oeuvre first and foremost includes operas and oratorios, but h...
G. I. Gurdjieff, geboren im Kaukasus an der Grenze zwischen Armenien und der Türkei, entwickelte eine philosophische Lehre, die zwischen dem esoterischen Wissen des Ostens und dem wissenschaftlichen D...
Il movimento finale della Sonata in La maggiore KV 331 di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, il Rondò Alla Turca, è uno dei brani pianistici più famosi in assoluto. Un tempo riservato a tutti gli intenditori di...
Se c'è un'opera in cui il nome del compositore Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) è destinato a vivere, questa è senza dubbio il suo canone. Quest'opera estremamente elaborata e allo stesso tempo tonalmente...
This 'Fantasia in G' was only recently discovered among the last manuscripts to be examined in the Nino Rota archive in Venice. Together with the '15 Preludes' (ED 9386), it is one of the few works by...
Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this well-loved traditional tune is given a jazzy twist, with rich harmonies and free-flowing rhythms.
The official sheet music edition of the same-named CD album 'Piano Songbook' (Sony Classical). Includes arrangements and fantasies of popular works, ranging from baroque to romantic as well as own com...
Playing with six hands means: voluminous sound in all registers, higher density and harmonic variety of chords without stepping beyond a moderate grade of difficulty in the individual parts. It also m...
Ein Querschnitt durch die neuen Tanzrhythmen für instruktive Zwecke
This edition is a must for pianists: the suite of Fellini's film Il Casanova arranged for piano by Nino Rota himself. Nino Rota's soundtracks for the masterpieces of Francis Ford 'Coppola' (Godfather)...
Fazil Say's Ballads are romantic, meditative piano pieces with cryptic literary and biographical associations. The first ballad Nazim, played exclusively on the white keys, is in memory of the well-kn...
...für Klavier sind 1961 entstanden. Jürg Wyttenbach hat sie im Januar 1962 in Basel uraufgeführt. Obschon die drei Stücke (über Gedichte von Georg Trakl) ganz aus den spezifischen Eigenarten des klav...
Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...
This volume builds on the progress achieved by following the outlines and good practice established in Book 1. This book helps to establish the habit of regular sight-reading, generally recognized as...
Scottish Folk Tunes presents a collection of beautiful pieces for solo piano drawn from the rich tradition of Scottish folk music. Experienced author and arranger Barrie Carson-Turner provides notes o...
Der Flohwalzer, der hier in einer leicht spielbaren Fassung vorgelegt wird, ist schon seit über hundert Jahren eines der bekanntesten Klavierstücke überhaupt. Er ist - teilweise unter anderem Namen -...
This book of pieces aims to establish good practice and provide an early introduction to the essential skill of sight-reading. In Part 1 the basic keys of C, G, F and D major and A and D minor are exp...
Alexander Rosenblatt, born in Moscow in 1956, completed his piano and composition studies at the renowned conservatoire of his home town. In his compositions, he combines classical elements with jazz...
Mit 'Zorba's Dance' schuf Mikis Theodorakis jene Melodie, die die griechische Musiktradition von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart zu verkörpern scheint und heute als Syrtaki weltweit den Inbegriff der vol...
100th birthday on 13 February 2011Pütz' intention to bridge the gap between two musical worlds - of 'serious' and of 'light' music - preoccupied him for much of his life. Apart from contemporary music...
Ghostly Piano Tales è una raccolta di 24 fantasiosi brani per pianoforte solo di difficoltà medio-facile, ideali per le lezioni dei principianti e le prime audizioni. La selezione presenta storie mist...
For the Easy Concert Pieces series, the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek compiled pleasant, easy piano pieces for beginners and published them in two volumes in progressive order. The third v...
Piano teachers (as well as pupils) know about the problem of the adult concert repertoire: there is a lack of literature for young, talented and virtuoso 8-11 years old pianists, when the hands are in...
The virtuoso Toccatina from the 8 Concert Studies Op. 40 is most popular piano piece by Kapustin. On YouTube one can find recordings of numerous pianists. Its use in the opening credits of the compute...
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One of the best-known and most popular musical pieces of the 20th century in an easily playable piano arrangement by the Orff pupil Hermann Regner. A fine opportunity to become better acquainted with...
Questa raccolta delle più belle 100 facili composizioni originali per pianoforte presentate da Schott contiene una selezione di opere che accompagnano ogni allievo nei primi anni di lezioni di pianofo...
George Frideric Handel, nato nello stesso anno di Johann Sebastian Bach e Domenico Scarlatti, si colloca tra i più importanti compositori dell'epoca barocca, accanto a Bach e Scarlatti, Dieterich Buxt...
La mia attrazione per il mezzo a due pianoforti risale al 1962, quando ero una matricola del Lawrence College nel Wisconsin. Olivier Messiaen e Yvonne Loriod vi eseguirono le sue Visions de l'amen dur...
Das Klavierstück Frühlingsrauschen gilt als die bekannteste Komposition des norwegischen Komponisten Christian Sinding. 1896 im Salon-Stil komponiert, malt das Charakterstück den aufblühenden überschw...
Kapustin composed the 3 Etudes op. 67 in 1992. The first étude, entitled Glissandi, is written in a swing jazz mood. In No. 2 Ripetizione the difficulty lies in the complexity of the rhythm. No.3 Grap...
L'ultimo volume della fortunata serie Best of Piano Classics di Hans-Günter Heumann offre un'attraente e colorata miscela di brani originali per pianoforte da molto facili a facili del periodo barocco...
Schon kurz nach dem Erscheinen von Wilhelm Furtwänglers Artikel 'Der Fall Hindemith' in der 'Deutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung' vom 25. November 1934 wusste Hindemith, dass seine Tage in Deutschland gezäh...
Le cadenze solistiche improvvisate e anche composte, che di solito si verificano verso la fine di un'aria di bravura o di un movimento di concerto strumentale, esistono dalla fine del XVI secolo. Esse...
The most beautiful and best-known pieces, chosen for piano lessons and for the first audition at the music school.
Despite his young age (born in 1991), the Russian pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov has already written quite an impressive number of transcriptions for piano solo or chamber music ensembles, among them man...
Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pi...
Carl Orffs berühmtes, auf einer Sammlung mittelalterlicher Texte basierendes Werk in einer Klavierversion von Eric Chumachenco. Diese Transkription ist kein Klavierauszug; was Vokalsolisten und Chor s...
Sergei Prokofiev compose i dodici pezzi di carattere delle Musiques d'enfants nell'estate del 1935. I brani sono un'introduzione ideale al mondo della grande letteratura pianistica di media difficoltà...
In these songs and pieces using various groups of five notes the beginner will find further material to complement Volume 1 of the piano method. Although the pieces have been especially put together w...
A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of Rutter's much-loved setting of these words of blessing from Numbers 6: 24. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly presen...
A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of Rutter's well-loved choral piece 'A Clare Benediction'. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly presented and laid out, t...