Wolfgang Birtel: spartiti medio

The musician Alexander Glasunov (1865 1936) from Petersburg owes his musical career to fellow composer Milij Balakirev who put him in contact with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1880 for private studies....

To mark its 250th anniversary, the Schott publishing house has dug up and reedited treasures from its historical publishing archives. This anthology is aimed at professional musicians and advanced ama...

La collana Violinissimo cerca di rendere accessibile il ricco repertorio di cinque secoli di musica per violino per le lezioni, i concerti e la musica privata. L'antologia Serenade contiene una selezi...

It is therefore quite wrong to place just mechanical or mediocre players at the viola', warned Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart in 1784/85 in his 'Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst'. Some disreg...

La raccolta "Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces" per viola e pianoforte presentata da Schott contiene una selezione di opere che possono accompagnare ogni allievo in molti anni delle su...

The fourth volume of the Violinissimo series features the most important studies for the early years of violin lessons. Violin Studies contains selections from the standard works by Kayser, Dont, Wohl...

Apart from the collection of 'Classical Manuscripts' composed by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and passed off by him as transcriptions of movements by old masters, the violonist published original works...

Enttäuscht, dass er mit seinen musikalischen Ambitionen in der Metropole London nicht reüssieren konnte, zog sich der englische Komponist Edward Elgar in die Provinz zurück. Im Sommer des Jahres 1888...

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...

33 brani per violino e pianoforte divertenti da suonare: ecco cosa offre la nuova antologia di Wolfgang Birtel nella collana Violinissimo! Oltre all'opera omonima di Joplin, The Entertainer, il volume...

Again and again composers have been inspired by the animal world and have represented the nature of the most diverse animals in music - be it locomotion, such as the flight of a butterfly or the wrigg...

Violine und Basso continuo (Klavier); Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

Il Trio in sol maggiore/mi minore op. 103 del compositore di Oppenheim e allievo di Max Regers può essere assegnato all'opera tarda del compositore sulla base del numero d'opera, anche se non è possib...

The Polish violin maestro, Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), wrote most of his works for himself and performed them on his worldwide concert tours. This edition contains a selection of his most beautiful...

The Belgian violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was one of the most important violin virtuosos of the 19th century. Concert tours took him throughout Europe and to the USA; for only a...

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1932) is regarded as one of the most important Polish composers since Chopin. He received his formative musical training in Warsaw where he lived for many years and was also di...

There is hardly a violinist who has not dealt with some or even all 42 'Kreutzer etudes' sometime or other: Études ou caprices form part of the standard repertoire. Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) has n...

With this double concerto, the Reger pupil Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is entirely in the tradition of Antonio Vivaldi and J.S. Bach, although she combines the concerto form with the classical four-mo...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim wrote concert works, such as chamber music works for violin, her whole life. Being a pupil of Reger, who held her in high esteem, she composed...

The only work still known today by Noack, 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' [Parade of the Brownies] Op. 5 was called a 'character piece' by the composer himself, and this 'marche en miniature' conveys w...