Spartiti classica

Duette nach Klaviersonaten Diese Sonaten gehören zu den kuriosesten Kompositionen des mittleren 18. Jahrhunderts. Scarlatti beschritt hier neue Wege und zeigte Experimentierfreude in Harmonik und Stim...

The concerto presented here is an arrangement of one of the '6 Concerti pour 5 flutes traversières' op.15. We used 4 flutes instead of 5 so that the work can be played by a flute quartet, one of the s...

Opera arrangements for four flutes from the 19th century are difficult to find, while there are numerous arrangements for other instrumentations. So why not use a good opera transcription as the basis...

Unveröffentlichte Originalkomposition von Croubelis aus der Zeit zwischen 1770 und 1790. Über den Komponisten ist wenig bekannt, außer dass er sich zeitweilig in Kopenhagen aufhielt. Die Musik selbst...

Joseph Cardon was born in Brussels in 1783, and died there in 1850. Apart from his Trois duos concertants, only his authorship of the composition presented here could be proved until today. These Quat...

We only have few biographical data about the composer Domingo Simoni del Croubelis. He obviously spent a long time in Copenhagen, where almost all of his numerous works have been handed down to poster...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel is considered one of the most important piano virtuosos and composers of the late 18th and early 19th century. He was born in Preßburg in 1778 and died - highly respected also as...

With the exception of the third piece, the subdued and contemplative 'Winter dreams', the movements of the Musica Vespertina belong to the genre of cheerful-humorous music. For example, the merry and...

When the practice of making music at home was rapidly expanding in the early 19th century, the compositions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were among the most popular pieces used for this purpose. They we...

'Carnaval des Animaux' is one of the most popular works by Saint-Saëns. After the Romance op. 37 (ZZM 29500) and the Odelette op. 162 (ZZM 29420), Werner Richer now presents two movements from the Car...

Jean Baptiste Sebastian Bréval was born in Paris in 1753 and died in the department of Aisne in 1823. Even more sustained than his instrumental work was his success as an author and composer. The majo...

Jean Baptiste Sebastian Bréval was born in Paris in 1753 and died in the department of Aisne in 1823. Even more sustained than his instrumental work was his success as an author and composer. The majo...

Le recueil présenté ici comprend une sélection de 84 pièces du célèbre Flötenbuch Friedrichs des Großen (Livre de flûte de Frédéric le Grand), quelques unes écrites par Frédéric lui-même, d'autres par...

In general, Tobias Haslinger is known as an eminent publisher of the works of Beethoven and Schubert. Although successful as a publisher, Haslinger is hardly known as a composer. The sonatinas present...

Mercadante was highly respected by many composers of his time. As well as postulating the maxim that the effect of an entire orchestra should always be given priority over the effect of a single instr...

Even before Strauß's operettas and dance music works were played in opera houses and concert halls, he had composed a few purely symphonic works, for example the Perpetuum mobile. An ostinato bass fig...

Together with the new variations on Pour les filles si gentilles op. 94 also published by Zimmermann, the new edition of opus 99 is one of Friedrich Kuhlau's last two works for flute and piano that ha...

Together with the new edition of the Introduction and Variations op. 99 also published by Zimmermann, the new edition of the Variations is one of Friedrich Kuhlau's last two works for flute and piano...

We have no exact information on Luigi Gianella's origins and beginnings. Established facts are his activities as a flautist with various orchestras in Paris and a stay in London. He died in Paris in 1...

As a composer, Anton Bernhard Fürstenau confined himself to his own instrument. He created a wealth of pedagogical, soloistic and chamber music works of considerably higher quality than those composit...

It is not unusual to arrange arias from operas for instrumentation and it seems to have been common practice all over the centuries. For the issue presented here, the editor has chosen an unknown aria...

There are only a few original Beethoven pieces for and with flute. From the Bonn period we have a trio in G major for flute, bassoon and piano, a flute duet in G major and the manuscript of a sonata i...

Lidarti was born in Vienna in 1730. Biographical notes unanimously report that he originally devoted himself to philosophy, while his uncle reproached him of being an amateur in the musical domain. It...

As the originals were arranged for female voices, the canons by Johannes Brahms are - except for a few necessary transpositions - well suited for a transcription, all the more so since there are few r...