Wolfgang Birtel: spartiti medio

The popular series 'Souvenir Musical' contains easily playable, yet effective works arranged for piano trio. The editions are addressed to amateur ensembles, lovers of salon music and professional pia...

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...

Igor Stravinsky liked to use different stylistic devices or embedded them in his personal musical language: Be it that he took a Gallop by Jacques Offenbach or composed Circus Polka for a Young Elepha...

Tango - a dance, a music genre, an awareness of life, 'a sad thought that can be danced' (according to a tango composer). The terms and definitions are as varied as the range of styles of the works. T...

The oeuvre by the Brazilian composer and pianist Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934) attracts more and more aficionados in this country. After his training, he concentrated on light entertainment and played...

Demanding salon music for string quartet (with double-bass ad libitum) is provided by Wolfgang Birtel in his 'Latin Dances' with four titles which can be played individually or as a little suite. The...

A work different from 'Rhapsody in Blue', the 'Piano Concerto in F' or other concert works, yet a 'charming' piece, admitted Ira Gershwin, the brother and text writer of George Gershwin (1898-1937). I...

Welcher Musiker kennt das Problem nicht: statt Haydn, Mozart oder Beethoven ist etwas 'Leichtes' gefragt. Zur Geburtstagsfeier oder zur Kaffeetafel im Freien, zum Festbankett oder zur Weihnachtsfeier...

Most well-known and generally popular - that's what the Happy Birthday meals served by Claus-Dieter Ludwig are. Meanwhile, they are available in various instrumentations (for piano solo and piano duet...

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...

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...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

Who would have thought that ragtime would enjoy another renaissance! But more than 50 years after the death of its main representative, Scott Joplin, the film 'The Sting' has made this once popular st...

There are composers about whom nothing or only little is known, who are only known through their works or even through one work only. Luigi Carvelli is one of them: He lived in the second half of the...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

Who would have thought that ragtime would enjoy another renaissance! But more than 50 years after the death of its main representative, Scott Joplin, the film 'The Sting' has made this once popular st...

Chi avrebbe mai pensato che il ragtime avrebbe vissuto una nuova rinascita! Ma più di 50 anni dopo la morte del suo principale rappresentante Scott Joplin, il film "Der Clou" (in originale: "The Sting...

È stato ed è tuttora un po' oscurato da Bedrich Smetana e Antonín Dvorák: il compositore boemo Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Ingiustamente, perché anche questo musicista, morto troppo presto, ha dato un...

Chi avrebbe mai pensato che il ragtime avrebbe vissuto una nuova rinascita! Ma più di 50 anni dopo la morte del suo principale rappresentante Scott Joplin, il film "Der Clou" (in originale: "The Sting...

La musica delle piccole forme e degli ensemble di musica da camera diventerà il fulcro del compositore francese Gabriel Faure (1845-1924). Dopo anni trascorsi in "provincia", il maestro di Camille Sai...

È stato ed è tuttora un po' oscurato da Bedrich Smetana e Antonín Dvorák: il compositore boemo Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Ingiustamente, perché anche questo musicista, morto troppo presto, ha dato un...

È stato ed è tuttora un po' oscurato da Bedrich Smetana e Antonín Dvorák: il compositore boemo Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Ingiustamente, perché anche questo musicista, morto troppo presto, ha dato un...

Chi avrebbe mai pensato che il ragtime avrebbe vissuto una nuova rinascita! Ma più di 50 anni dopo la morte del suo principale rappresentante Scott Joplin, il film "Der Clou" (in originale: "The Sting...

È stato ed è tuttora un po' oscurato da Bedrich Smetana e Antonín Dvorák: il compositore boemo Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Ingiustamente, perché anche questo musicista, morto troppo presto, ha dato un...

È stato ed è tuttora un po' oscurato da Bedrich Smetana e Antonín Dvorák: il compositore boemo Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900). Ingiustamente, perché anche questo musicista, morto troppo presto, ha dato un...